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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. 1341 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with q8_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
text 1149vision language 98video 7image 2embedding 26audio tts 21audio asr 38

What fits at 16K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1341 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
HomunculusIQ3_XS12.5B5.06 GiB1.33 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-BF16-abliteratedI1-IQ3_XXS13.9B5.05 GiB1.33 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-BF16IQ3_XXS13.9B5.05 GiB1.33 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-UncensoredI1-IQ3_XXS13.9B5.05 GiB1.33 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410Q5_K_S8.0B5.21 GiB1.20 GiB7.44 GiB0.00 GiB17±22%
WizardLM-7B-UncensoredI1-Q2_K_S6.7B2.16 GiB4.25 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
Llama-2-7B-32K-InstructI1-Q2_K_S6.7B2.16 GiB4.25 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
Olmo-3-7B-InstructQ4_K_L7.3B4.45 GiB1.96 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-INSTRUCT-Heretic-UncensoredMoEI1-IQ1_M19.0B5.96 GiB0.49 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
gemma-4-19B-A4B-it-The-DECKARD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingMoEI1-IQ1_M19.0B5.96 GiB0.49 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
gemma-4-19b-a4b-it-REAP-hereticMoEI1-IQ1_M19.0B5.96 GiB0.49 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
Gemma-4-19BMoEI1-IQ1_M19.0B5.96 GiB0.49 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
SambaLingo-Japanese-ChatI1-IQ2_S6.9B2.15 GiB4.25 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB17±22%
Ling-liteMoEIQ2_XS16.8B5.97 GiB0.46 GiB7.43 GiB0.01 GiB46±37%
granite-8b-code-instruct-4kI1-Q5_K_S8.1B5.19 GiB1.20 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
granite-8b-code-base-4kI1-Q5_K_S8.1B5.19 GiB1.20 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Gemini-3-Pro-Preview-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-Deepseek-v3.1-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-vl-GLM-4.7-Flash-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Floppa-12B-Gemma3-UncensoredI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-hereticI1-Q3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-abliteratedQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated-v2Q3_K_M11.8B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
gemma-3-12b-itQ3_K_M12.2B5.60 GiB0.78 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Kimi-VL-A3B-InstructMoEI1-Q2_K_S16.4B6.15 GiB0.25 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB53±37%
Moonlight-16B-A3B-InstructMoEQ2_K_S16.0B6.15 GiB0.25 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB53±37%
Ling-mini-2.0MoEIQ3_XXS16.3B6.10 GiB0.33 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB69±37%
Cydonia-v1.3-Magnum-v4-22BI1-IQ1_S22.2B4.50 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Mistral-Small-22B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.1I1-IQ1_S22.2B4.50 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
magnum-v4-22bI1-IQ1_S22.2B4.50 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Codestral-22B-v0.1IQ1_S22.2B4.50 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Codestral-22B-v0.1-hfIQ1_S22.2B4.50 GiB1.86 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-ThinkingIQ2_S21.8B5.93 GiB0.46 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PTIQ2_S21.9B5.93 GiB0.46 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512Q2_K_L13.9B5.03 GiB1.33 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512Q2_K_L13.9B5.03 GiB1.33 GiB7.42 GiB0.02 GiB17±22%
dolphin-2.9.1-mixtral-1x22bMoEI1-IQ1_S22.2B4.49 GiB1.86 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB10±37%
gemma-7bI1-IQ2_XS8.5B2.62 GiB3.72 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Qwen3.5-9BQ5_K_S9.7B6.11 GiB0.27 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Marco-Mini-InstructMoEI1-Q2_K_S17.3B5.51 GiB0.93 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB43±37%
zeta-2Q4_K_L8.3B5.30 GiB1.06 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
spoomplesmaxx-mini-14BI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
vanilla-cn-roleplay-0.2I1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Claria-14bI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
NTX-2.1-ProI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Qwen3-14B-UncensoredI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
FrogMini-14B-2510I1-Q2_K_S5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Qwen3-14B-abliteratedI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Hermes-4-14BQ2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Slava-Qwen3-14B-SerbianI1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Huihui-Qwen3-14B-abliterated-v2I1-Q2_K_S14.8B5.02 GiB1.33 GiB7.41 GiB0.03 GiB17±22%
Teuken-7B-instruct-research-v0.4I1-Q6_K7.5B6.10 GiB0.27 GiB7.40 GiB0.04 GiB17±22%
granite-4.0-h-3b-arF163.4B6.33 GiB0.07 GiB7.40 GiB0.04 GiB17±22%
Wan2.2-Animate-14BQ2_K17.3B6.36 GiB0.00 GiB7.40 GiB0.04 GiB17±22%
Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506MoEQ2_K16.4B6.13 GiB0.25 GiB7.40 GiB0.04 GiB53±37%
Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-GeminiI1-IQ1_S27.7B5.80 GiB0.53 GiB7.39 GiB0.05 GiB17±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensoredI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB0.53 GiB7.39 GiB0.05 GiB17±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ1_S27.4B5.80 GiB0.53 GiB7.39 GiB0.05 GiB17±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedI1-IQ1_S27.8B5.80 GiB0.53 GiB7.39 GiB0.05 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?
1341 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A1000 at 16,384 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Homunculus at IQ3_XS. 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.