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RTX A2000

RTX A2000 has 12 GB of VRAM at 288 GB/s — about 11.16 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1445 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K context with f16 KV.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
12 GB
GDDR6
Bandwidth
288 GB/s
192-bit bus
Tensor FP16
32 TF
dense
TDP
70 W
$449 MSRP
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1227vision language 118audio tts 21video 14embedding 26image 1audio asr 38

What fits at 32K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1445 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
gemma-4-12B-it-hereticQ5_K_S12.0B7.64 GiB2.47 GiB11.16 GiB0.00 GiB16±22%
Phi-3-medium-4k-instructI1-IQ2_XS14.0B3.84 GiB6.25 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Phi-3-medium-128k-instructIQ2_XS14.0B3.84 GiB6.25 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Crow-9B-HERETIC-4.6Q8_09.4B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9B-CoderQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwopus3.5-9B-v3.5Q8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-MTPQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-abliteratedQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9B-Fable-5-v1Q8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
PINQWEN-3.5-9B-1M-BF16Q8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Openprose-2-FlashQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9B-Nikusui-v1Q8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9BQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Ornith-1.0-9B-heretic-MTPQ8_09.4B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
dotwebs-1Q8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
liftQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Ornith-1.0-9BQ8_09.2B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9B-DeepSeek-V4-FlashQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-9BQ8_09.7B9.11 GiB1.00 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-ThinkingIQ3_XXS21.8B8.38 GiB1.75 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PTIQ3_XXS21.9B8.38 GiB1.75 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Engineer-Deckard-GeminiI1-IQ2_S27.7B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-HERETIC-Polaris-Advanced-Thinking-Alpha-uncensoredI1-IQ2_S27.4B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Deckard-PKD-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-IQ2_S27.4B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Huihui-Qwen3.5-27B-abliteratedI1-IQ2_S27.8B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Unredacted-MAXI1-IQ2_S27.4B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-hereticI1-IQ2_S27.4B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-DerestrictedI1-IQ2_S27.8B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-DistilledI1-IQ2_S27.8B8.08 GiB2.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Falcon3-10B-InstructQ3_K_L10.3B5.08 GiB5.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Tiger-Gemma-12B-v3Q4_112.8B7.63 GiB2.47 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
AfriqueGemma-12BI1-Q4_112.2B7.63 GiB2.47 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-AbliteratedI1-IQ3_XXS8.0B6.10 GiB4.00 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
starcoder2-15bKV unresolvedQ3_K_M16.0B7.54 GiB2.50 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
ERNIE-21B-A3B-Thinking-Gemini-3-Pro-High-Reasoning-V2I1-IQ3_XS21.8B8.37 GiB1.75 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
ERNIE-21B-A3B-Claude-4.5-High-OPUS-ThinkingI1-IQ3_XS21.8B8.37 GiB1.75 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Laguna-XS-2.1MoEIQ2_XXS33.4B8.76 GiB1.37 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB43±37%
Tess-3-Mistral-Nemo-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Wayfarer-2-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Wayfarer-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
writing-roleplay-20k-context-nemo-12b-v1.0Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Dans-PersonalityEngine-V1.3.0-12bQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Lumimaid-v0.2-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Lumimaid-Magnum-v4-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Mistral-Nemo-Gutenberg-Doppel-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
MN-12b-RP-InkQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
magnum-v4-12bQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Mistral-Nemo-12B-ArliAI-RPMax-v1.1Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Rocinante-X-12B-v1Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12bQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
pixtral-12bQ2_K_L12.7B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Crimson_Dawn-v0.2Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Magnum-Picaro-0.7-v2-12bQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Nera_Noctis-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Mistral-Nemo-Prism-12BQ2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Chronos-Gold-12B-1.0Q2_K_L12.2B5.07 GiB5.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±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 generation4.98 it/s3.586.3666
Benchmarked· n=66

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 A2000 run?
1445 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 32,768 context with f16 KV cache, the largest being gemma-4-12B-it-heretic at Q5_K_S. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a RTX A2000 actually have?
Its nameplate is 12 GB, but about 11.16 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
Is a RTX A2000 fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 288 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.