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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. 1958 of 2118 indexed models fit at 8K context with f16 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 1681vision language 173image 2video 16audio asr 39audio tts 21embedding 26

What fits at 8K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1958 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32BI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
QwQ-32B-Snowdrop-v0I1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-UncensoredI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
RoguePlanet-DeepSeek-R1-Qwen-32B-RPI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-InstructF1610.7B20.02 GiB1.25 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
OpenBuddy-R1-0528-Distill-Qwen3-32B-Preview0-QATQ4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-ultra-uncensored-hereticI1-Q4_133.4B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Huihui-Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-Q4_133.4B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
KAT-DevQ4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
ColorGUI-32BI1-Q4_133.4B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-32B-InstructQ4_133.4B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-32B-ThinkingQ4_133.4B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-32B-UncensoredI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-32BQ4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-32B-abliteratedI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
DeepSWE-PreviewQ4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
AReaL-boba-2-32BI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Assistant_Pepe_32BI1-Q4_132.8B19.22 GiB2.00 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct-biprojected-norm-preserving-abliteratedI1-Q4_036.2B19.21 GiB2.00 GiB22.30 GiB0.02 GiB21±22%
Seed-OSS-36B-InstructQ4_036.2B19.21 GiB2.00 GiB22.30 GiB0.02 GiB21±22%
Hermes-4.3-36B-hereticI1-Q4_036.2B19.21 GiB2.00 GiB22.30 GiB0.02 GiB21±22%
Hermes-4.3-36BQ4_036.2B19.21 GiB2.00 GiB22.30 GiB0.02 GiB21±22%
GLM-Z1-Rumination-32B-0414Q4_K_L33.1B19.31 GiB1.91 GiB22.30 GiB0.02 GiB21±22%
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3BMoEQ4_K_S31.6B20.91 GiB0.41 GiB22.29 GiB0.03 GiB92±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEUD-Q4_K_M36.0B21.11 GiB0.16 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB115±37%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEQ4_K_L36.0B21.11 GiB0.16 GiB22.27 GiB0.05 GiB115±37%
Salience-1.5-FlashMoEQ5_K_L31.1B20.52 GiB0.75 GiB22.26 GiB0.06 GiB76±37%
Huihui-GLM-4.7-Flash-abliterated-57BMoEI1-IQ3_XXS57.3B20.15 GiB1.05 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB70±37%
Qwen3.5-40B-RoughHouse-Claude-4.6-Opus-Polar-Deckard-Uncensored-Heretic-ThinkingIQ4_XS39.5B20.42 GiB0.75 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB21±22%
Wizard-Vicuna-30B-UncensoredI1-IQ2_XS32.5B8.97 GiB12.19 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB21±22%
archangel_sft-kto_llama30bI1-IQ2_XS32.5B8.97 GiB12.19 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB21±22%
MN-GRAND-23.5B-Gutenberg-UNCENSORED-V2-GLM4.7-ThinkingQ6_K23.4B18.64 GiB2.53 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509UD-IQ2_XXS70.6B18.54 GiB2.50 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
umt5-xxlF325.7B21.17 GiB0.00 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
internlm2-math-plus-20bQ8_019.9B19.66 GiB1.50 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
Phi-3.5-MoE-instructMoEKV unresolvedQ3_K_L41.9B20.20 GiB1.00 GiB22.21 GiB0.11 GiB53±37%
Yi-34B-200K-DARE-megamerge-v8I1-Q4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b-hereticQ4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34bI1-Q4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
OrionStar-Yi-34B-Chat-LlamaI1-Q4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Yi-34B-200K-LlamafiedI1-Q4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Yi-1.5-34BQ4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34BQ4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Merged-RP-Stew-V2-34BI1-Q4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Capybara-Tess-Yi-34B-200KQ4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Nous-Capybara-limarpv3-34BQ4_K_M34.4B19.24 GiB1.88 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
spoomplesmaxx-v2.1-30BI1-Q5_K_M28.9B19.09 GiB2.00 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Huihui-granite-4.1-30b-abliteratedI1-Q5_K_M28.9B19.09 GiB2.00 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
granite-4.1-30b-hereticI1-Q5_K_M28.9B19.09 GiB2.00 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
granite-4.1-30bQ5_K_M28.9B19.09 GiB2.00 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-ThinkingMoEQ5_K_L31.1B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
MiroThinker-v1.0-30BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507MoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Pantheon-Proto-RP-1.8-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3BMoEQ5_K_L30.5B20.43 GiB0.75 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB76±37%
Skywork-R1V3-38BQ5_K_S38.4B21.08 GiB0.00 GiB22.15 GiB0.17 GiB21±22%
command-r-35b-writer-v2I1-IQ2_S35.0B11.03 GiB10.00 GiB22.14 GiB0.18 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-27B-uncensored-heretic-v2Q6_K27.4B20.57 GiB0.50 GiB22.13 GiB0.19 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?
1958 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A5000 at 8,192 context with f16 KV cache, the largest being cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32B at I1-Q4_1. 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.