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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.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
12 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
288 GB/s
192-bit bus
Tensor FP16
32 TF
dense
TDP
70 W
$449 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1507vision language 145audio tts 21video 14audio asr 39image 2embedding 26

What fits at 16K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1754 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
dolphin-2.6-mistral-7bQ5_K_M7.2B9.56 GiB0.56 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-AbliteratedI1-Q4_18.0B9.56 GiB0.56 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-Q4_018.0B9.66 GiB0.49 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB42±37%
OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7BKV unresolvedQ5_K_M7.2B9.56 GiB0.56 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Darwin-35B-A3B-OpusMoEIQ2_XS36.0B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
Aurora-Code-1MoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
grug-35b-v2MoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
grug-35bMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
WorldSim-Opus-3.6-35B-A3BMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AnkoMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
KAT-Coder-V2.5-DevMoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
Ornith-1.0-35BMoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
Nex-N2-miniMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.09 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB91±37%
dolphin-2.9.2-Phi-3-MediumKV unresolvedQ5_K14.0B9.20 GiB0.88 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Frank-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q2_K_S26.5B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliteratedMoEI1-Q2_K_S26.5B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-local-abliterated-sota-internal-t34MoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterixMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-antislopMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-Distill-v2MoEI1-Q2_K_S26.5B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoEI1-Q2_K_S26.5B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-AbliteratedMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16MoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-araMoEI1-Q2_K_S25.8B9.89 GiB0.26 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Smilodon-9B-v1Q8_010.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
bella-bartender-v2Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-AbliteratedQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-2-9B-It-SPPO-Iter3Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-9bQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
G2-Darkest-Writer-Dirty-Shirley-9B-v2Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
G2-Darkest-Writer-9B-v1Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Tiger-Gemma-9B-v3Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Gemma-SEA-LION-v3-9B-ITQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-9b-it-abliteratedQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-9b-itQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Tiger-Gemma-9B-v1Q8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
magnum-v4-9bQ8_09.2B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-9b-it-bnb-4bitQ8_09.5B9.15 GiB0.95 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Pantheon-Reasoning-27BIQ2_S27.8B9.79 GiB0.28 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27BIQ2_S27.8B9.79 GiB0.28 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-INSTRUCT-Heretic-UncensoredMoEI1-IQ4_NL19.0B9.88 GiB0.26 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-The-DECKARD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingMoEI1-IQ4_NL19.0B9.88 GiB0.26 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-19b-a4b-it-REAP-hereticMoEI1-IQ4_NL19.0B9.88 GiB0.26 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-19BMoEI1-IQ4_NL19.0B9.88 GiB0.26 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-30B-A3BMoEIQ2_M30.5B9.71 GiB0.42 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB58±37%
Pantheon-Proto-RP-1.8-30B-A3BMoEIQ2_M30.5B9.71 GiB0.42 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB58±37%
From the filePredictedwhat these mean

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

third-party benchmarks, aggregated
WorkloadMedianMiddle 50%Runs
Image generation4.98 it/s3.586.3666
Benchmarked· n=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.