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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. 1390 of 2118 indexed models fit at 64K context with q8_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 1174embedding 26vision language 116audio tts 21video 14image 1audio asr 38

What fits at 64K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1390 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Phi-3-medium-128k-instructIQ2_XXS14.0B3.46 GiB6.64 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Phi-3-medium-4k-instructI1-IQ2_XXS14.0B3.46 GiB6.64 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16Q5_18.0B5.60 GiB4.52 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-HereticI1-IQ2_S8.8B5.34 GiB4.78 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Laguna-XS-2.1MoEIQ2_XXS33.4B8.76 GiB1.39 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB43±37%
granite-8b-code-instruct-4kI1-Q5_K_M8.1B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
granite-8b-code-base-4kI1-Q5_K_M8.1B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Hunyuan-7B-InstructQ6_K_L7.5B5.86 GiB4.25 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
next-8bI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Supertron2-Reranker-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
next-ocrI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-GLM-4.7-Flash-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Midas-FableAgent-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Heretic-1.3.0I1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-Unredacted-MAXI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Minecraft-MT-en-zhI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen-3-VL-8B-Instruct-hereticI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Poe-8B-GLM5-Opus4.6-Sonnet4.5-Kimi-Grok-Gemini-3-pro-preview-HERETICI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
ToolCUA-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-ThinkingQ5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Unredacted-MAXQ5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Salience-1-9BI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-Uncensored-V2I1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Maestro1-9BI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
nsfwcaption-qwen3-vl-8b-v3-safetensorsQ5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
GRaPE-2-FlashI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Jan-v2-VL-medI1-Q5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructQ5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Jan-v2-VL-highQ5_K_S8.8B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Parable-Qwen3-8B-Claude-Fable-5I1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
ReasonCritic-7BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
mythos-9b-unhinged-hereticI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Finch-8B-KTOI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8BQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Finch-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
MathSmith-hc-Qwen3-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
MiroThinker-v1.0-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
mythos-9b-unhingedI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Ektome-Qwen3-8B-PristinelyUncensoredI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Marco-DeepResearch-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
mythos-9b-mergedI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
qwen3-8b-apostateI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
qwen3-8b-claude-agentic-fable5Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1I1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
tmax-8bI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-8BQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-8B-abliteratedQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
story_generation_Qwen3_8B_RLI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
AReaL-boba-2-8B-OpenI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-8B-UncensoredQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
DS-R1-Qwen3-8B-ArliAI-RpR-v4-SmallI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
LMT-60-8BQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Nemotron-Orchestrator-8BQ5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
S1-Base-8BI1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v2I1-Q5_K_S8.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Step3-VL-10B-BaseI1-Q5_K_S10.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
T-lite-it-2.1Q5_08.2B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
MiniCPM-V-4_5Q5_08.7B5.33 GiB4.78 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 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?
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.