▸ NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA RTX A5000

VRAM

24 GB

HIGH-END

BANDWIDTH

768

GB/S

MODELS Q4

249/331

75%

7B Q4 SPEED

~88

BLAZING

▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q475% OF ALL

▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B

~205

TOK/S

7B

~88

TOK/S

14B

~44

TOK/S

32B

~19

TOK/S

70B

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39.4GB NEEDED

▸ SPECIFICATIONS

VRAM

24 GB

BANDWIDTH

768 GB/s

FP16 COMPUTE

27.8 TFLOPS

TDP

230W

MEMORY

GDDR6

ARCHITECTURE

Ampere

CUDA CORES

8,192

TENSOR CORES

256

PCIE

Gen 4 x16

MSRP

$2,500

205

FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S

Real-time chat speed

249

USABLE · >10 TOK/S

Comfortable for all tasks

249

TOTAL COMPATIBLE

Fit in VRAM at Q4

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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 249

nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

GPT-2 124M0.124B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

SmolLM2 135M0.135B

SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

SmolLM2 360M0.36B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B

LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B

LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

Llama-3.2-1B1.2B

LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B

DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B

EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

OPT·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

PHI·2K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B

PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 5% VRAM

granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE

GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 20% VRAM

Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B

QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B

YI·125K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B

STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 6% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 7% VRAM

Moondream2 1.9B1.9B

OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT

TOK/S · 7% VRAM

GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 7% VRAM

Granite 3.0 2B2B

GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 7% VRAM

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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA RTX A5000 — 24 GB VRAM.

▸ RTX A5000 SPEC

BRAND: NVIDIA
VRAM: 24 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH: 768 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE: 27.8 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE: 27.8 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES: 8,192
TENSOR CORES: 256
TDP: 230 W
ARCHITECTURE: Ampere
MSRP: $2500

▸ AI CAPABILITY

249/ 331 models @ Q4

With 24 GB VRAM and 768 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 34.4B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~88 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RTX A5000

249 FIT · SHOWING 20

MODEL	SIZE	VRAM Q4	TOK/S	AVG
Nous Capybara 34B	34.4B	21.5 GB	18	42.0
Yi-1.5 34B	34.4B	21.5 GB	18	45.3
Falcon-H1 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	66.1
CodeLlama 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	25.4
Nous Hermes 2 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	47.0
Phind CodeLlama 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	68.1
LLaVA-1.6 Yi 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	47.4
WizardCoder Python 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	73.2
Yi 34B	34B	21.3 GB	18	33.4
DeepSeek Coder 33B	33B	20.7 GB	19	26.0
Vicuna 33B	33B	20.7 GB	19	17.2
LLaMA 1 30B	33B	20.7 GB	19	17.8
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	32.8B	20.5 GB	19	46.9
Qwen3 32B	32.8B	20.5 GB	19	54.9
Qwen2.5-32B	32.5B	20.4 GB	19	54.3
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B	32.5B	20.4 GB	19	48.0
QwQ-32B	32.5B	20.4 GB	19	45.1
OLMo-2-0325-32B	32.2B	20.2 GB	19	59.1
Aya Expanse 32B	32B	20.0 GB	19	35.9
Cogito 32B	32B	20.0 GB	19	39.4