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RTX A5000

RTX A5000 has 24 GB of VRAM at 768 GB/s — about 22.32 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1957 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K context with q4_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
24 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
768 GB/s
384-bit bus
Tensor FP16
111 TF
dense
TDP
230 W
$2250 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1680vision language 173image 2video 16audio asr 39audio tts 21embedding 26

What fits at 32K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1957 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-InstructQ5_K_M14.8B19.57 GiB1.69 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEUD-Q4_K_M36.0B21.11 GiB0.18 GiB22.29 GiB0.03 GiB114±37%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEQ4_K_L36.0B21.11 GiB0.18 GiB22.29 GiB0.03 GiB114±37%
OpenBuddy-R1-0528-Distill-Qwen3-32B-Preview0-QATQ4_K_L32.8B18.94 GiB2.25 GiB22.29 GiB0.03 GiB21±22%
KAT-DevQ4_K_L32.8B18.94 GiB2.25 GiB22.28 GiB0.04 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-32B-InstructQ4_K_L33.4B18.94 GiB2.25 GiB22.28 GiB0.04 GiB21±22%
DeepSWE-PreviewQ4_K_L32.8B18.94 GiB2.25 GiB22.28 GiB0.04 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-ThinkingMoEQ5_K_L31.1B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
MiroThinker-v1.0-30BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507MoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
Pantheon-Proto-RP-1.8-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB74±37%
Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.84 GiB22.26 GiB0.06 GiB74±37%
magnum-v2-32bQ4_K_L32.5B18.88 GiB2.25 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB21±22%
umt5-xxlF325.7B21.17 GiB0.00 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-uncensored-heretic-v2Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-GeminiI1-Q6_K27.7B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensoredI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-ThinkingI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Uncensored-AggressiveI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen-3.5-Opus-GLM-27BI1-Q6_K26.9B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
KoQweopus-3.5-27B-experimentalI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Webcoda-AI-27BI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-imabari-v2I1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-uncensored-heretic-v1I1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Unredacted-MAXI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-hereticI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Carnice-V2-27bI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-Queen-27BI1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
GRaPE-2-ProI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.6-27B-abliteratedQ6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedQ6_K26.9B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-DerestrictedI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B-hereticQ6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
MusaCoder-27BQ6_K20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen-Image-BenchQ6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Bonsai-27B-unpackedQ6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-unpackedQ6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-Claude-Opus-Reasoning-Distill-v2-hereticQ6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Darwin-28B-REASONI1-Q6_K26.9B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-abliteratedI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-DistilledI1-Q6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27BQ6_K27.8B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-WebNovel-Writer-zhI1-Q6_K26.9B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-27B_Homebrew-v2I1-Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.56 GiB22.19 GiB0.13 GiB21±22%
Salience-1.5-FlashMoEQ5_K_M31.1B20.34 GiB0.84 GiB22.18 GiB0.14 GiB74±37%
Qwen3.5-40B-RoughHouse-Claude-4.6-Opus-Polar-Deckard-Uncensored-Heretic-ThinkingI1-IQ4_XS39.5B20.26 GiB0.84 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB21±22%
Skywork-R1V3-38BQ5_K_S38.4B21.08 GiB0.00 GiB22.15 GiB0.17 GiB21±22%
dolphin-2.6-mixtral-8x7bMoEI1-IQ3_M46.7B19.96 GiB1.13 GiB22.12 GiB0.20 GiB35±37%
Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPOMoEIQ3_M46.7B19.96 GiB1.13 GiB22.12 GiB0.20 GiB35±37%
xLAM-8x7b-rMoEIQ3_M46.7B19.96 GiB1.13 GiB22.12 GiB0.20 GiB35±37%
Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1MoEIQ3_M46.7B19.96 GiB1.13 GiB22.12 GiB0.20 GiB35±37%
Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1MoEIQ3_M46.7B19.96 GiB1.13 GiB22.12 GiB0.20 GiB35±37%
14BQ8_014.2B14.02 GiB7.03 GiB22.10 GiB0.22 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-21B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingQ8_021.3B20.61 GiB0.42 GiB22.09 GiB0.23 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-21B-IQ-Ultra-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingQ8_021.3B20.61 GiB0.42 GiB22.09 GiB0.23 GiB21±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 generation15.08 it/s11.9818.18149
Prompt processing3631.09 tok/s2656.024169.8014
Text generation129.11 tok/s123.25132.1910
Benchmarked· n=149

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 A5000 run?
1957 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A5000 at 32,768 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct at Q5_K_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a RTX A5000 actually have?
Its nameplate is 24 GB, but about 22.32 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a RTX A5000 fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 768 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.