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.
What fits at 4K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phi-4-reasoning | Q5_K_M | 14.7B | 9.88 GiB | 0.22 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Phi-4-reasoning-plus | Q5_K_M | 14.7B | 9.88 GiB | 0.22 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| phi-4 | Q5_K_M | 14.7B | 9.88 GiB | 0.22 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| DeepSeek-V2-Lite-ChatMoE | Q5_0 | 15.7B | 10.10 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 60±37% |
| glm-4-9b-chat-1m | Q8_0 | 9.5B | 9.39 GiB | 0.70 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| LFM2-24B-A2BMoE | Q3_K_M | 23.8B | 10.10 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 74±37% |
| Magistry-24B-v1.1 | Q3_K_S | 23.6B | 9.84 GiB | 0.18 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | UD-IQ2_XXS | 29.8B | 10.01 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Gemma-4-12B-StyleTune | I1-Q6_K | 13.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.20 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-4-12b-heretic-styletune-head | I1-Q6_K | 12.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.20 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| syrian-gemma-12b | I1-Q6_K | 13.0B | 9.88 GiB | 0.20 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-Gemini | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.7B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensored | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.4B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.4B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliterated | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.8B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-Unredacted-MAX | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.4B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-heretic | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.4B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-Derestricted | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.8B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled | I1-IQ3_XXS | 27.8B | 10.00 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.13 GiB | 0.03 GiB | 16±22% |
| medgemma-27b-it | I1-Q2_K | 28.8B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated-refined-vision | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| Nidum-Gemma-3-27B-it-Uncensored | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| gemma-3-27b-it | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| AtomicGPT-gemma3-27b | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| Unbound-v1.12.0-27B | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| Mira-v1.12-Ties-27B | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| Medgamma27B | I1-Q2_K | 27.0B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| medgemma-27b-text-it | Q2_K | 27.0B | 9.78 GiB | 0.26 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| Rocinante-XL-16B-v1 | Q4_K_L | 16.1B | 9.84 GiB | 0.24 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| VibeVoice-1.5B | F32 | 2.7B | 10.07 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 11.12 GiB | 0.04 GiB | 16±22% |
| granite-34b-code-base-8k | I1-IQ2_S | 33.7B | 10.04 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| UncensoredLM-DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | Q5_K_L | 14.2B | 9.86 GiB | 0.20 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-Thinking | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Uncensored-Aggressive | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen-3.5-Opus-GLM-27B | I1-Q2_K | 26.9B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-abliterated | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| KoQweopus-3.5-27B-experimental | I1-Q2_K | 27.8B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Webcoda-AI-27B | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-imabari-v2 | I1-Q2_K | 27.8B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16 | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-uncensored-heretic-v1 | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Carnice-V2-27b | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-Queen-27B | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| GRaPE-2-Pro | I1-Q2_K | 27.8B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3.6-27B-abliterated | Q2_K | 27.8B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-abliterated | Q2_K | 26.9B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-heretic | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen-Image-Bench | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.6-27B-Claude-Opus-Reasoning-Distill-v2-heretic | Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Darwin-28B-REASON | I1-Q2_K | 26.9B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-abliterated | I1-Q2_K | 27.8B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B-WebNovel-Writer-zh | I1-Q2_K | 26.9B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3.5-27B_Homebrew-v2 | I1-Q2_K | 27.4B | 9.98 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 11.11 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 16±22% |
| Skyfall-31B-v4.2 | IQ2_XS | 31.4B | 9.75 GiB | 0.24 GiB | 11.10 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 16±22% |
| internlm2-math-plus-20b | I1-Q3_K_L | 19.9B | 9.83 GiB | 0.21 GiB | 11.10 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 16±22% |
| Homunculus | Q6_K_L | 12.5B | 9.88 GiB | 0.18 GiB | 11.10 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 16±22% |
| 14B | Q5_0 | 14.2B | 9.17 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 11.10 GiB | 0.06 GiB | 16±22% |
| Wan2.2-Distill-Models | Q5_K_M | 14.3B | 10.06 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 11.09 GiB | 0.07 GiB | 16±22% |
| NSFW_13B_sft | Q5_K_M | 13.3B | 9.17 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 11.09 GiB | 0.07 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?
- 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.