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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. 1966 of 2118 indexed models fit at 8K 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 1689vision language 173image 2video 16audio tts 21audio asr 39embedding 26

What fits at 8K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1966 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
dolphin-2.6-mixtral-8x7bMoEI1-Q3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB38±37%
Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPOMoEQ3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB38±37%
Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1MoEQ3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB38±37%
xLAM-8x7b-rMoEQ3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB38±37%
Skyfall-31B-v4.2-hereticI1-Q5_K_M31.4B20.72 GiB0.47 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
Skyfall-31B-v4.2I1-Q5_K_M31.4B20.72 GiB0.47 GiB22.32 GiB0.00 GiB21±22%
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7bMoEQ3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB38±37%
Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1MoEQ3_K_M46.7B21.00 GiB0.28 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB38±37%
L3-DARKEST-PLANET-16.5BQ2_K16.5B20.65 GiB0.62 GiB22.31 GiB0.01 GiB21±22%
HarmonicHarlequin_v5-20BIQ4_XS33.3B16.67 GiB4.57 GiB22.28 GiB0.04 GiB21±22%
Fallen-Gemma3-27B-v1Q6_K_L27.4B20.96 GiB0.26 GiB22.26 GiB0.06 GiB21±22%
diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-HERETIC-UncensoredMoEQ6_K25.8B21.10 GiB0.17 GiB22.26 GiB0.06 GiB21±22%
diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-itMoEQ6_K25.8B21.10 GiB0.17 GiB22.26 GiB0.06 GiB21±22%
Open_Gpt4_8x7B_v0.2MoEQ3_K_M46.7B20.93 GiB0.28 GiB22.25 GiB0.07 GiB38±37%
Goetia-26B-A4B-v1.3-Absolute-Heretic-ARAMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Frank-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q6_K26.5B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
EVE-26b-XENO-HATMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-Animus-V14.1-FFT-hereticMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-DistillMoEQ6_K26.5B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
G4-MeroMero-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Claude-Opus-Distill-v2MoEQ6_K26.5B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
G4-Dark-Soul-26B-A4BMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-local-abliterated-sota-internal-t34MoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-SOMPOA-heresyMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-hereticMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterixMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-v2MoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-antislopMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticMoEQ6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-hereticMoEQ6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-Heretic-StableMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-Uncensored-MAXMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ara-abliteratedMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoEI1-Q6_K26.5B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-AbliteratedMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16MoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-araMoEI1-Q6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliteratedMoEQ6_K25.8B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
gemma-4-26B-A4BMoEQ6_K26.5B21.08 GiB0.17 GiB22.24 GiB0.08 GiB21±22%
Hunyuan-A13B-InstructMoEUD-TQ1_080.4B20.95 GiB0.28 GiB22.23 GiB0.09 GiB21±22%
umt5-xxlF325.7B21.17 GiB0.00 GiB22.22 GiB0.10 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-40B-RoughHouse-Claude-4.6-Opus-Polar-Deckard-Uncensored-Heretic-ThinkingI1-Q4_K_S39.5B20.94 GiB0.21 GiB22.21 GiB0.11 GiB21±22%
GLM-4-32B-0414-Korean-CultureI1-Q5_K_S32.6B20.98 GiB0.13 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
GLM-Z1-32B-0414Q5_K_S32.6B20.98 GiB0.13 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
GLM-4-32B-0414Q5_K_S32.6B20.98 GiB0.13 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
GLM-Z1-32B-0414-uncensored-heretic-v2Q5_K_S32.6B20.98 GiB0.13 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q4_K_S39.5B20.92 GiB0.21 GiB22.20 GiB0.12 GiB21±22%
Olmo-3.1-32B-InstructQ5_K_S32.2B20.71 GiB0.38 GiB22.18 GiB0.14 GiB21±22%
Olmo-3.1-32B-ThinkQ5_K_S32.2B20.71 GiB0.38 GiB22.18 GiB0.14 GiB21±22%
Olmo-3-32B-ThinkQ5_K_S32.2B20.71 GiB0.38 GiB22.18 GiB0.14 GiB21±22%
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-InstructMoEIQ3_M49.1B21.10 GiB0.07 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB21±22%
ALIA-40b-fc-2606I1-IQ4_XS40.4B20.64 GiB0.42 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB21±22%
ALIA-40b-instruct-2606I1-IQ4_XS40.4B20.64 GiB0.42 GiB22.17 GiB0.15 GiB21±22%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEUD-Q4_K_M36.0B21.11 GiB0.04 GiB22.16 GiB0.16 GiB121±37%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEQ4_K_L36.0B21.11 GiB0.04 GiB22.15 GiB0.17 GiB121±37%
Skywork-R1V3-38BQ5_K_S38.4B21.08 GiB0.00 GiB22.15 GiB0.17 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-Gembrain-X-Core-31BI1-Q5_K_M31.3B20.35 GiB0.68 GiB22.11 GiB0.21 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-Gembrain-X-31BI1-Q5_K_M31.3B20.35 GiB0.68 GiB22.11 GiB0.21 GiB21±22%
Gemma-4-31B-Isometry-Fabled-PersonaI1-Q5_K_M31.3B20.35 GiB0.68 GiB22.11 GiB0.21 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?
1966 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A5000 at 8,192 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being dolphin-2.6-mixtral-8x7b at I1-Q3_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.