RTX A2000
RTX A2000 has 12 GB of VRAM at 288 GB/s — about 11.16 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1708 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with q8_0 KV.
What fits at 16K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UncensoredLM-DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | Q4_K_L | 14.2B | 8.58 GiB | 1.53 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Heretic | I1-IQ4_NL | 8.8B | 8.93 GiB | 1.20 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| medgemma-27b-it | I1-Q2_K_S | 28.8B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated-refined-vision | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Nidum-Gemma-3-27B-it-Uncensored | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| AtomicGPT-gemma3-27b | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Unbound-v1.12.0-27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Mira-v1.12-Ties-27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Medgamma27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.0B | 9.09 GiB | 0.99 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Phi-4-reasoning | Q4_K_M | 14.7B | 8.43 GiB | 1.66 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| Phi-4-reasoning-plus | Q4_K_M | 14.7B | 8.43 GiB | 1.66 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| phi-4 | Q4_K_M | 14.7B | 8.43 GiB | 1.66 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| internlm2-math-plus-20b | I1-IQ3_M | 19.9B | 8.50 GiB | 1.59 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-2-27b-it | IQ2_S | 27.2B | 8.06 GiB | 1.96 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| magnum-v4-27b | IQ2_S | 27.2B | 8.06 GiB | 1.96 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Frank-26B-A4BMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 26.5B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-hereticMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliteratedMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 26.5B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-local-abliterated-sota-internal-t34MoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-hereticMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterixMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-antislopMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.67 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-Distill-v2MoE | I1-IQ2_M | 26.5B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 26.5B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-26B-A4B-AbliteratedMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16MoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-araMoE | I1-IQ2_M | 25.8B | 9.66 GiB | 0.49 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-Thinking | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Uncensored-Aggressive | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen-3.5-Opus-GLM-27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.9B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-abliterated | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| KoQweopus-3.5-27B-experimental | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.8B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Webcoda-AI-27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-imabari-v2 | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.8B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-uncensored-heretic-v1 | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Carnice-V2-27b | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-Queen-27B | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| GRaPE-2-Pro | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.8B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Darwin-28B-REASON | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.9B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-abliterated | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.8B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-WebNovel-Writer-zh | I1-Q2_K_S | 26.9B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B_Homebrew-v2 | I1-Q2_K_S | 27.4B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Omnimerge-v4 | IQ2_M | 27.8B | 9.54 GiB | 0.53 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| NousCoder-14B | Q4_1 | 14.8B | 8.74 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| spoomplesmaxx-mini-14B | I1-Q4_1 | 14.8B | 8.74 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| vanilla-cn-roleplay-0.2 | I1-Q4_1 | 14.8B | 8.74 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Claria-14b | I1-Q4_1 | 14.8B | 8.74 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| NTX-2.1-Pro | I1-Q4_1 | 14.8B | 8.74 GiB | 1.33 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
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?
- 1708 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 16,384 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being UncensoredLM-DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B at Q4_K_L. 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.