RTX A4000
RTX A4000 has 16 GB of VRAM at 448 GB/s — about 14.88 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 1377 of 2118 indexed models fit at 128K context with q8_0 KV.
What fits at 128K context
| Model | Best quant | Params | Weights● | KV● | Total in memory◐ | Headroom◐ | tok/s◐ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct-heretic | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| saiga_llama3_8b | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5 | Q5_K | 8.5B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| llama-3-8b-bnb-4bit | Q5_K_M | 8.2B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama3-ChatQA-1.5-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Meta-Llama-3-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3-Groq-8B-Tool-Use | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| llama3.1-heretic-unsensored | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| dolphin-2.9.4-llama3.1-8b | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Dolphin3.0-Llama3.1-8B-abliterated | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| LLAMA-3_8B_Unaligned_BETA | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-8B | Q5_K | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Meta-Llama-3-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Anubis-Mini-8B-v1 | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Anubis-Mini-8B-v1-heretic | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Deepseek-R1-Distill-NSFW-RPv1 | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8B-heretic | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| L3.1-Dark-Reasoning-LewdPlay-evo-Hermes-R1-Uncensored-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Gluon-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Heretic-Uncensored-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama3.3-8B-Instruct-Thinking-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Hypnos-i1-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| grok-oss-Apollyon-8B-heretic | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K-Jbliterated | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| PsyCoPref-Llama3-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama3.1-GptDeluxe-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| SelfCite-8B-CC-SFT | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| ai-girlfriend-v2 | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.3-8B-Instruct-128K_Abliterated | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Aisha-Uncensored-v2 | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| grok-oss-Apollyon-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| HARC-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Lumen-1.2.5 | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Stoicism1_Llama3.1-8b-instruct | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| grok-oss-Thanatos-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored-V2 | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| L3-8B-Sunfall-v0.5-Stheno-v3.2 | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Dolphin-X1-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| llama-3-youko-8b | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| OpenElla-NovelWriter-Requiem-Ascended | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llava | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.5B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5 | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.3-Uncensored | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| calme-2.3-legalkit-8b | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama3.1-DilemmaDeluxe-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-8B-Stheno-v3.4 | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.0-Uncensored | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| DarkIdol-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-1.2-Uncensored | Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| SzilviaB-Daredevil-LongWriter-8B_abliterated | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
| Humanish-Roleplay-Llama-3.1-8B | I1-Q5_K_M | 8.0B | 5.34 GiB | 8.50 GiB | 14.88 GiB | 0.00 GiB | 18±22% |
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
| Workload◍ | Median | Middle 50% | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image generation | 12.43 it/s | 9.82–14.54 | 304 |
| Prompt processing | 2452.65 tok/s | 2018.10–2695.41 | 12 |
| Text generation | 81.90 tok/s | 78.44–83.73 | 10 |
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 A4000 run?
- 1377 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a RTX A4000 at 131,072 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct at I1-Q5_K_M. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
- How much usable memory does a RTX A4000 actually have?
- Its nameplate is 16 GB, but about 14.88 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for.
- Is a RTX A4000 fast for local AI?
- Its memory bandwidth is 448 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.