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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. 1780 of 2118 indexed models fit at 4K 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 1531vision language 147audio tts 21video 14audio asr 39image 2embedding 26

What fits at 4K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1780 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Phi-4-reasoningQ5_K_M14.7B9.88 GiB0.22 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Phi-4-reasoning-plusQ5_K_M14.7B9.88 GiB0.22 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
phi-4Q5_K_M14.7B9.88 GiB0.22 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-V2-Lite-ChatMoEQ5_015.7B10.10 GiB0.03 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB60±37%
glm-4-9b-chat-1mQ8_09.5B9.39 GiB0.70 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
LFM2-24B-A2BMoEQ3_K_M23.8B10.10 GiB0.02 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB74±37%
Magistry-24B-v1.1Q3_K_S23.6B9.84 GiB0.18 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Muse-Glimmer-30BUD-IQ2_XXS29.8B10.01 GiB0.04 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Gemma-4-12B-StyleTuneI1-Q6_K13.0B9.88 GiB0.20 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12b-heretic-styletune-headI1-Q6_K12.0B9.88 GiB0.20 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
syrian-gemma-12bI1-Q6_K13.0B9.88 GiB0.20 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-GeminiI1-IQ3_XXS27.7B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensoredI1-IQ3_XXS27.4B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ3_XXS27.4B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedI1-IQ3_XXS27.8B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Unredacted-MAXI1-IQ3_XXS27.4B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-hereticI1-IQ3_XXS27.4B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-DerestrictedI1-IQ3_XXS27.8B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-DistilledI1-IQ3_XXS27.8B10.00 GiB0.07 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
medgemma-27b-itI1-Q2_K28.8B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated-refined-visionI1-Q2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-27b-it-abliteratedQ2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Nidum-Gemma-3-27B-it-UncensoredI1-Q2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
gemma-3-27b-itQ2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
AtomicGPT-gemma3-27bI1-Q2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Unbound-v1.12.0-27BI1-Q2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Mira-v1.12-Ties-27BI1-Q2_K27.4B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Medgamma27BI1-Q2_K27.0B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
medgemma-27b-text-itQ2_K27.0B9.78 GiB0.26 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Rocinante-XL-16B-v1Q4_K_L16.1B9.84 GiB0.24 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
VibeVoice-1.5BF322.7B10.07 GiB0.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
granite-34b-code-base-8kI1-IQ2_S33.7B10.04 GiB0.00 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
UncensoredLM-DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BQ5_K_L14.2B9.86 GiB0.20 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-ThinkingI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Uncensored-AggressiveI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen-3.5-Opus-GLM-27BI1-Q2_K26.9B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
KoQweopus-3.5-27B-experimentalI1-Q2_K27.8B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Webcoda-AI-27BI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-imabari-v2I1-Q2_K27.8B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-uncensored-heretic-v1I1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Carnice-V2-27bI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-Queen-27BI1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
GRaPE-2-ProI1-Q2_K27.8B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedQ2_K27.8B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedQ2_K26.9B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-hereticQ2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen-Image-BenchQ2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Claude-Opus-Reasoning-Distill-v2-hereticQ2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Darwin-28B-REASONI1-Q2_K26.9B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-abliteratedI1-Q2_K27.8B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-WebNovel-Writer-zhI1-Q2_K26.9B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B_Homebrew-v2I1-Q2_K27.4B9.98 GiB0.07 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Skyfall-31B-v4.2IQ2_XS31.4B9.75 GiB0.24 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
internlm2-math-plus-20bI1-Q3_K_L19.9B9.83 GiB0.21 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
HomunculusQ6_K_L12.5B9.88 GiB0.18 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
14BQ5_014.2B9.17 GiB0.88 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Wan2.2-Distill-ModelsQ5_K_M14.3B10.06 GiB0.00 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
NSFW_13B_sftQ5_K_M13.3B9.17 GiB0.88 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
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?
1780 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 4,096 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being Phi-4-reasoning 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.