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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. 1750 of 2118 indexed models fit at 8K 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 1505vision language 143audio tts 21video 14audio asr 39image 2embedding 26

What fits at 8K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1750 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Skyfall-31B-v4.2-hereticI1-IQ2_S31.4B9.14 GiB0.90 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Skyfall-31B-v4.2I1-IQ2_S31.4B9.14 GiB0.90 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
EXAONE-4.0-32BIQ2_S32.0B9.34 GiB0.71 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Darwin-35B-A3B-OpusMoEIQ2_XS36.0B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
Aurora-Code-1MoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
grug-35b-v2MoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
grug-35bMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
WorldSim-Opus-3.6-35B-A3BMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AnkoMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
KAT-Coder-V2.5-DevMoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
Ornith-1.0-35BMoEIQ2_XS34.7B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
Nex-N2-miniMoEIQ2_XS35.1B10.06 GiB0.08 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB91±37%
Gemma-3-27B-MeditronFOI1-IQ2_M28.8B9.41 GiB0.66 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
NSFW_13B_sftQ3_K_L13.3B6.77 GiB3.32 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1MoEIQ2_S26.5B9.82 GiB0.32 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-Q4_018.0B9.66 GiB0.46 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB42±37%
dolphin-2.6-mistral-7bQ5_K_M7.2B9.56 GiB0.53 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-AbliteratedI1-Q4_18.0B9.56 GiB0.53 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7BKV unresolvedQ5_K_M7.2B9.56 GiB0.53 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Laguna-XS-2.1MoEIQ2_S33.4B9.89 GiB0.23 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB81±37%
VibeVoice-1.5BF322.7B10.07 GiB0.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Pantheon-Reasoning-27BIQ2_S27.8B9.79 GiB0.27 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27BIQ2_S27.8B9.79 GiB0.27 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
granite-34b-code-base-8kI1-IQ2_S33.7B10.04 GiB0.00 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Muse-Glimmer-30BIQ2_M29.8B9.93 GiB0.10 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-30B-A3BMoEIQ2_M30.5B9.71 GiB0.40 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB59±37%
Pantheon-Proto-RP-1.8-30B-A3BMoEIQ2_M30.5B9.71 GiB0.40 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB59±37%
IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-InstructI1-IQ1_M39.8B8.68 GiB1.33 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-A4B-98e-v6-coder-itMoEQ3_K_M20.5B9.79 GiB0.32 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-A4B-98e-v7-coder-itMoEQ3_K_M20.5B9.79 GiB0.32 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-A4B-98e-v7-coderx-itMoEQ3_K_M20.5B9.79 GiB0.32 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen3-Coder-REAP-25B-A3BMoEIQ3_XS24.9B9.71 GiB0.40 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB54±37%
Grug-12BQ6_K12.0B9.54 GiB0.51 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12B-it-Esper4Q6_K12.0B9.54 GiB0.51 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
gemma-4-12B-itQ6_K12.0B9.54 GiB0.51 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Wan2.2-Distill-ModelsQ5_K_M14.3B10.06 GiB0.00 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-Uncensored-Finetune-ThinkingIQ2_M27.4B9.77 GiB0.27 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
SkyReels-V2-DF-14B-540PQ5_K_M14.3B10.06 GiB0.00 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
dolphin-2.9.2-Phi-3-MediumKV unresolvedQ5_K14.0B9.20 GiB0.83 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Vikhr-Gemma-2B-instructF322.6B9.74 GiB0.34 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-2b-itF322.6B9.74 GiB0.34 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-2b-it-abliteratedF322.6B9.74 GiB0.34 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Gemmasutra-Mini-2B-v1F322.6B9.74 GiB0.34 GiB11.09 GiB0.07 GiB16±22%
Le-Chaton-Slim-23BMoEI1-IQ3_M23.3B9.64 GiB0.43 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB33±37%
Wan2.1-T2V-14BQ5_014.3B10.05 GiB0.00 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
MythoMax-L2-Kimiko-v2-13bIQ4_XS13.0B6.72 GiB3.32 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
gemma-2-27b-itIQ2_M27.2B8.75 GiB1.19 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB17±22%
magnum-v4-27bIQ2_M27.2B8.75 GiB1.19 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB17±22%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-REAM-160-ru-agentMoEIQ3_M23.6B9.99 GiB0.08 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB78±37%
Forsaken-Void-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Silver-Siren-ST-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
KrakenSakura-Maelstrom-12B-v1Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
MN-12B-Runeweaver-RP-RUI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Impish_Bloodmoon_12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Wayfarer-2-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Wayfarer-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Muse-12BI1-Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 GiB16±22%
Mistral-Nemo-Base-2407Q6_K12.2B9.37 GiB0.66 GiB11.08 GiB0.08 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?
1750 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 8,192 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Skyfall-31B-v4.2-heretic at I1-IQ2_S. 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.
RTX A2000 — what AI models can it run locally? — ossmodeldb