RTX A2000
RTX A2000 has 12 GB of VRAM at 288 GB/s — about 11.16 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1390 of 2118 indexed models fit at 64K context with q8_0 KV.
What fits at 64K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct | IQ2_XXS | 14.0B | 3.46 GiB | 6.64 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct | I1-IQ2_XXS | 14.0B | 3.46 GiB | 6.64 GiB | 11.16 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 16±22% |
| Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 | Q5_1 | 8.0B | 5.60 GiB | 4.52 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Heretic | I1-IQ2_S | 8.8B | 5.34 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| Laguna-XS-2.1MoE | IQ2_XXS | 33.4B | 8.76 GiB | 1.39 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 43±37% |
| granite-8b-code-instruct-4k | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.1B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| granite-8b-code-base-4k | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.1B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| Hunyuan-7B-Instruct | Q6_K_L | 7.5B | 5.86 GiB | 4.25 GiB | 11.15 GiB | 0.01 GiB | 16±22% |
| next-8b | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Supertron2-Reranker-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| next-ocr | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-GLM-4.7-Flash-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Midas-FableAgent-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-1.3.0 | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-Unredacted-MAX | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Minecraft-MT-en-zh | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen-3-VL-8B-Instruct-heretic | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Poe-8B-GLM5-Opus4.6-Sonnet4.5-Kimi-Grok-Gemini-3-pro-preview-HERETIC | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| ToolCUA-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking | Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAX | Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Salience-1-9B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Uncensored-V2 | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Maestro1-9B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| nsfwcaption-qwen3-vl-8b-v3-safetensors | Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| GRaPE-2-Flash | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Jan-v2-VL-med | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Jan-v2-VL-high | Q5_K_S | 8.8B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Parable-Qwen3-8B-Claude-Fable-5 | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| ReasonCritic-7B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| mythos-9b-unhinged-heretic | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Finch-8B-KTO | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Finch-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| MathSmith-hc-Qwen3-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| MiroThinker-v1.0-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| mythos-9b-unhinged | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Ektome-Qwen3-8B-PristinelyUncensored | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Marco-DeepResearch-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| mythos-9b-merged | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| qwen3-8b-apostate | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| qwen3-8b-claude-agentic-fable5 | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1 | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| tmax-8b | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-8B | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-8B-abliterated | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| story_generation_Qwen3_8B_RL | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| AReaL-boba-2-8B-Open | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Qwen3-8B-Uncensored | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| DS-R1-Qwen3-8B-ArliAI-RpR-v4-Small | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| LMT-60-8B | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Nemotron-Orchestrator-8B | Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| S1-Base-8B | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Huihui-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v2 | I1-Q5_K_S | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| Step3-VL-10B-Base | I1-Q5_K_S | 10.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| T-lite-it-2.1 | Q5_0 | 8.2B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 GiB | 16±22% |
| MiniCPM-V-4_5 | Q5_0 | 8.7B | 5.33 GiB | 4.78 GiB | 11.14 GiB | 0.02 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?
- 1390 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 65,536 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct at IQ2_XXS. 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.