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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. 1707 of 2118 indexed models fit at 32K context with q4_0 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 1463vision language 142audio tts 21video 14audio asr 39image 2embedding 26

What fits at 32K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 1707 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeightsKVTotal in memoryHeadroomtok/s
codegeex4-all-9bIQ3_M9.4B4.48 GiB5.63 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-21B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M21.3B9.67 GiB0.42 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.6-21B-IQ-Ultra-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingI1-Q3_K_M21.3B9.67 GiB0.42 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
glm-4-9b-chat-abliteratedIQ3_M9.4B4.48 GiB5.63 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
glm-4-9b-chatIQ3_M9.4B4.48 GiB5.63 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Muse-Glimmer-30BIQ2_M29.8B9.93 GiB0.14 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB16±22%
Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-UncensoredMoEI1-IQ4_XS18.0B9.15 GiB0.98 GiB11.15 GiB0.01 GiB36±37%
Qwen3-Coder-REAP-25B-A3BMoEIQ3_XXS24.9B9.31 GiB0.84 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB44±37%
granite-4.1-8bQ8_08.8B8.70 GiB1.41 GiB11.14 GiB0.02 GiB16±22%
Marco-Mini-InstructMoEI1-Q4_K_S17.3B9.17 GiB0.98 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB51±37%
Rocinante-XL-16B-v1I1-IQ4_XS16.1B8.18 GiB1.90 GiB11.13 GiB0.03 GiB16±22%
Pantheon-Reasoning-27BIQ2_XS27.8B9.50 GiB0.56 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-27BIQ2_XS27.8B9.50 GiB0.56 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEIQ2_XXS36.0B9.94 GiB0.18 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB85±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEIQ2_XXS36.0B9.94 GiB0.18 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB85±37%
North-Mini-Code-1.0MoEIQ2_M30.5B9.82 GiB0.32 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB62±37%
VibeVoice-1.5BF322.7B10.07 GiB0.00 GiB11.12 GiB0.04 GiB16±22%
granite-34b-code-base-8kI1-IQ2_S33.7B10.04 GiB0.00 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
Magistral-Small-2509-VisionQ2_K24.0B8.59 GiB1.41 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
OLMo-2-1124-7B-InstructQ6_K7.3B5.58 GiB4.50 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
TildeOpen-30B-Instruct-LVI1-IQ2_XXS30.7B7.91 GiB2.11 GiB11.11 GiB0.05 GiB16±22%
EVA-abliterated-TIES-Qwen2.5-14BI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Neuron-V1-14B-InstructI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Ektome-Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-PristinelyUncensoredI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M-abliteratedI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
DeepCoder-14B-PreviewQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Deepseeker-Kunou-Qwen2.5-14bI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
SuperNova-MediusQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
14B-Qwen2.5-Kunou-v1I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Sugoi-14B-Ultra-HFI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-abliterated-v2Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-UncensoredQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-abliteratedQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-InstructQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-abliterated-v2I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
C1-TachuI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-abliteratedI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
0x-liteQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Tessera-4I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
AceReason-Nemotron-14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-InstructQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
FinetunedQwen14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Tessera-4.1I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1MQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-Coder-14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Qwen2.5-14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Strand-Rust-Coder-14B-v1Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
UwU-14B-Math-v0.2I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
EVA-Qwen2.5-14B-v0.2I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
EVA-Qwen2.5-14B-v0.0I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
EVA-Qwen2.5-14B-v0.1I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
oxy-1-smallQ4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Impish_QWEN_14B-1MI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Lamarck-14B-v0.7I1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
QwenStock-14BI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-UncensoredI1-Q4_K_M14.8B8.37 GiB1.69 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB16±22%
Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3BMoEI1-IQ2_S36.0B9.92 GiB0.18 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB85±37%
Qwen35B-Agent-R2-AbliteratedMoEI1-IQ2_S34.7B9.92 GiB0.18 GiB11.10 GiB0.06 GiB85±37%
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?
1707 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A2000 at 32,768 context with q4_0 KV cache, the largest being codegeex4-all-9b at IQ3_M. 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.