NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VRAM
16 GB
MID-RANGE
BANDWIDTH
200
GB/S
MODELS Q4
202/331
61%
7B Q4 SPEED
~23
GOOD
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q461% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~53
TOK/S
7B
~23
TOK/S
14B
~11
TOK/S
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
16 GB
BANDWIDTH
200 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.5 TFLOPS
TDP
250W
MEMORY
GDDR6
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
CUDA CORES
1,280
TENSOR CORES
40
PCIE
Gen 4 x8
82
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
196
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
202
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 202
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
1600
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1290
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
1185
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
478
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
478
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
478
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
464
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
444
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
320
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
320
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
320
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
282
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
267
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
207
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
200
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
178
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
160
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
160
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
145
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
133
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
133
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
123
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
123
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
123
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
123
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
123
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT
107
TOK/S · 29% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
107
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
100
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
94
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
94
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
89
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
84
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
80
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
80
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
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NVIDIA A16 PCIe16 GB VRAM.

A16 PCIE SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
16 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH
200 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
4.5 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
4.5 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
1,280
TENSOR CORES
40
TDP
250 W
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
▸ AI CAPABILITY
202/ 331 models @ Q4

With 16 GB VRAM and 200 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 22.2B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~23 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR A16 PCIE
202 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Codestral 22B22.2B14.1 GB750.1
Devstral Small 22B22.2B14.1 GB735.5
Mistral Small 22B22.2B14.1 GB735.2
SOLAR-Pro 22B22.1B14.0 GB744.2
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B21B13.3 GB53
GPT-OSS 20B21B13.3 GB4452.9
InternLM2 20B19.8B12.6 GB845.1
InternLM2.5 20B19.8B12.6 GB850.9
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B10.8 GB67
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B10.3 GB6738.0
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B10.1 GB6743.0
DeepSeek-VL2 Small 16B15.7B10.1 GB6743.1
StarCoder 15B15.5B10.0 GB1021.0
StarCoder2 15B15B9.7 GB1126.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B9.5 GB1143.9
DeepCoder 14B14.8B9.5 GB1138.7
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B9.5 GB1141.3
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B9.5 GB1141.3
Qwen3 14B14.8B9.5 GB1145.7
Ministral 3 14B14B9.0 GB1125.9