RTX A2000
RTX A2000 has 12 GB of VRAM at 288 GB/s — about 11.16 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1754 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with q4_0 KV.
What fits at 16K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dolphin-2.6-mistral-7b | Q5_K_M | 7.2B | 9.56 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Abliterated | I1-Q4_1 | 8.0B | 9.56 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoE | I1-Q4_0 | 18.0B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 42±37% |
| OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7BKV unresolved | Q5_K_M | 7.2B | 9.56 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Darwin-35B-A3B-OpusMoE | IQ2_XS | 36.0B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| Aurora-Code-1MoE | IQ2_XS | 34.7B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| grug-35b-v2MoE | IQ2_XS | 35.1B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| grug-35bMoE | IQ2_XS | 35.1B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| WorldSim-Opus-3.6-35B-A3BMoE | IQ2_XS | 35.1B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AnkoMoE | IQ2_XS | 35.1B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| KAT-Coder-V2.5-DevMoE | IQ2_XS | 34.7B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| Ornith-1.0-35BMoE | IQ2_XS | 34.7B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| Nex-N2-miniMoE | IQ2_XS | 35.1B | 10.06 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 91±37% |
| dolphin-2.9.2-Phi-3-MediumKV unresolved | Q5_K | 14.0B | 9.20 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Frank-26B-A4BMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.5B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-hereticMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliteratedMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.5B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-local-abliterated-sota-internal-t34MoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-hereticMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterixMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-antislopMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-Distill-v2MoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.5B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.5B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-AbliteratedMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16MoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-araMoE | I1-Q2_K_S | 25.8B | 9.89 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Smilodon-9B-v1 | Q8_0 | 10.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| bella-bartender-v2 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-Abliterated | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-2-9B-It-SPPO-Iter3 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-2-9b | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G2-Darkest-Writer-Dirty-Shirley-9B-v2 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G2-Darkest-Writer-9B-v1 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Tiger-Gemma-9B-v3 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-SEA-LION-v3-9B-IT | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-2-9b-it-abliterated | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-2-9b-it | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Tiger-Gemma-9B-v1 | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| magnum-v4-9b | Q8_0 | 9.2B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-2-9b-it-bnb-4bit | Q8_0 | 9.5B | 9.15 GiB | 0.95 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Pantheon-Reasoning-27B | IQ2_S | 27.8B | 9.79 GiB | 0.28 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B | IQ2_S | 27.8B | 9.79 GiB | 0.28 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-INSTRUCT-Heretic-UncensoredMoE | I1-IQ4_NL | 19.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-The-DECKARD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingMoE | I1-IQ4_NL | 19.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-19b-a4b-it-REAP-hereticMoE | I1-IQ4_NL | 19.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-19BMoE | I1-IQ4_NL | 19.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-30B-A3BMoE | IQ2_M | 30.5B | 9.71 GiB | 0.42 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 58±37% |
| Pantheon-Proto-RP-1.8-30B-A3BMoE | IQ2_M | 30.5B | 9.71 GiB | 0.42 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 58±37% |
Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.
Measured on this card
| Workload◍ | Median | Middle 50% | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image generation | 4.98 it/s | 3.58–6.36 | 66 |
Aggregated from community-submitted runs, so the spread is wide by nature — it covers different models, resolutions, step counts and settings, not one controlled configuration. Read the middle 50% rather than the median alone. These figures are reproduced with attribution from vladmandic-sd-data-benchmark, which publishes no licence — so we display and link rather than redistribute them.
Questions people ask
- What AI models can a RTX A2000 run?
- 1754 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 16,384 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being dolphin-2.6-mistral-7b at Q5_K_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
- How much usable memory does a RTX A2000 actually have?
- Its nameplate is 12 GB, but about 11.16 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
- Is a RTX A2000 fast for local AI?
- Its memory bandwidth is 288 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.