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RTX A1000

RTX A1000 has 8 GB of VRAM at 192 GB/s — about 7.44 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 881 of 2118 indexed models fit at 128K context with q4_0 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
192 GB/s
128-bit bus
Tensor FP16
27 TF
dense
TDP
50 W
$365 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
audio asr 38text 710audio tts 20vision language 84video 7embedding 21image 1

What fits at 128K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 881 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507Q4_04.7B2.21 GiB4.22 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Qwen3-Zero-Coder-Reasoning-V2-0.8BI1-Q5_K_M816M0.56 GiB5.91 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrainedQ5_03.8B2.49 GiB3.94 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Teuken-7B-instruct-research-v0.4I1-Q5_K_M7.5B5.27 GiB1.13 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
Gemma-4-E4B-LuchadorQ6_K8.0B5.90 GiB0.51 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Foundation-Sec-8B-InstructI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct-hereticI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3-8B-InstructIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3-8BIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
llama3.1-heretic-unsensoredI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Anubis-Mini-8B-v1I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
dolphin-2.9-llama3-8bIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3-8BIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8B-hereticI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Gluon-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Heretic-Uncensored-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-ReasoningI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Hypnos-i1-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
grok-oss-Apollyon-8B-hereticI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K-JbliteratedI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
PsyCoPref-Llama3-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama3.1-GptDeluxe-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
SelfCite-8B-CC-SFTI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
ai-girlfriend-v2I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K_AbliteratedI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Aisha-Uncensored-v2I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
grok-oss-Apollyon-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
HARC-Llama-3.1-8B-InstructI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Lumen-1.2.5I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128KI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Stoicism1_Llama3.1-8b-instructI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
grok-oss-Thanatos-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
OpenElla-NovelWriter-Requiem-AscendedI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llavaI1-IQ1_S8.5B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.3-UncensoredI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
calme-2.3-legalkit-8bI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama3.1-DilemmaDeluxe-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.1-8B-Stheno-v3.4I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.0-UncensoredI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
SzilviaB-Daredevil-LongWriter-8B_abliteratedI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.1-SuperNova-LiteI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Humanish-Roleplay-Llama-3.1-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.1_OpenScholar-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-ClaudeI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.1-Storm-8BIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3.3-8B-InstructI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Infinity-Instruct-7M-Gen-Llama3_1-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
markdownizerI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-SEA-LION-v2-8BI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v3I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
llama3-8B-DarkIdol-2.3-Uncensored-32KI1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SPPO-Iter3I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Hathor_Unstable-L3-8B-v0.3I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Hathor_Tahsin-L3-8B-v0.85I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2I1-IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8BIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Llama3-ChatQA-1.5-8BIQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
openchat-3.6-8b-20240522IQ1_S8.0B1.88 GiB4.50 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±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 generation3.75 it/s3.594.057
Benchmarked· n=7

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 A1000 run?
881 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A1000 at 131,072 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 at Q4_0. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a RTX A1000 actually have?
Its nameplate is 8 GB, but about 7.44 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a RTX A1000 fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 192 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.