NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

VRAM
12 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
768
GB/S
MODELS Q4
250/428
58%
7B Q4 SPEED
~88
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q458% 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
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
12 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
250
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
250
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
250
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 250
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
6827
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
6144
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
4955
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
4551
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
2400
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
2276
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
2014
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
1834
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1834
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1834
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1781
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
1755
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
1707
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
1229
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1229
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1229
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1229
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
1082
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1082
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1024
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1024
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1024
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
1024
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
878
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
794
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
768
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
683
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
614
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
614
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
614
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
559
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
512
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
512
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
512
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
512
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
473
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
473
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
473
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
473
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
473
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q12 GB VRAM.

RTX A5000-12Q SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
12 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
▸ AI CAPABILITY
250/ 428 models @ Q4

With 12 GB VRAM and 768 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 16.8B parameters.

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

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR RTX A5000-12Q
250 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B10.8 GB256
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B10.3 GB25638.0
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B10.1 GB25643.0
DeepSeek-VL2 Small 16B15.7B10.1 GB25643.1
StarCoder 15B15.5B10.0 GB4021.0
StarCoder2 15B15B9.7 GB4126.5
Phi-4-reasoning-vision 15B15B9.7 GB4142.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B14.8B9.5 GB4243.9
DeepCoder 14B14.8B9.5 GB4238.7
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B14.8B9.5 GB4241.3
Qwen2.5-14B14.8B9.5 GB4241.3
Qwen3 14B14.8B9.5 GB4245.7
Ministral 3 14B14B9.0 GB4425.9
Phi-3-medium-14b14B9.0 GB4433.7
phi-4 14B14B9.0 GB4433.7
Phi-4-reasoning 14B14B9.0 GB4433.7
Phi-4-multimodal 14B14B9.0 GB4442.0
Qwen 1.5 14B14B9.0 GB4441.3
InternVL3 14B14B9.0 GB4438.1
LLaVA-1.5 13B13.1B8.5 GB4752.1