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What local AI models can the NVIDIA RTX A5000 run?

77 of our 115 models, up to Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with long context. It is the largest current model that keeps room for long context on the RTX A5000's 24 GB: at Q4 it fits with room for about 33K tokens of context (63K with 8-bit KV cache), at about 146 tok/s estimate. The largest that fits at all is K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B with room for only about 3K tokens of context (5K with 8-bit KV cache).

Memory24 GB GDDR6source
Bandwidth768 GB/ssource
Models that fit77 of 115
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Memory type: GDDR6 (source) · Bus width: 384-bit (source) · Released: 2021 (source)

Specs from first-party pages (NVIDIA), accessed 2026-10-18. Speeds use the NVIDIA (CUDA) constants (how).

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Every model, largest that fits first

ModelQuantFileFits?Speed estimateMax context estimate
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BQ4_K_M22.29 GBFits~146 tok/s33K · 63K (8-bit)
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQ4_K_M22.29 GBFits~146 tok/s33K · 63K (8-bit)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB (2-bit)native 2-bit22.02 GBFits~125 tok/s116K · 219K (8-bit)
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BQ4_K_M21.17 GBFits~148 tok/s87K · 164K (8-bit)
Nanbeige4.3-33BQ4_K_M20.79 GBFits~31 tok/s10K · 19K (8-bit)
Xing4.0-29B-A4BQ4_K_M20.06 GBFits~182 tok/s62K · 117K (8-bit)
Raon-1 mini preview Early supportQ4_K_M19.69 GBWeights fit context unknown~118 tok/sUnknown (no KV data)
PLaMo 3 Translate 31B Translation onlyQ4_K_M19.53 GBFits~33 tok/s32K (full)
Meta Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_M18.39 GBFits~35 tok/s128K (full)
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_M18.32 GBFits~35 tok/s40K · 90K (8-bit)
GLM-4.7-FlashQ4_K_M18.31 GBFits~232 tok/s84K · 159K (8-bit)
Qwen3.6-27BQ4_K_M17.98 GBFits~33 tok/s74K · 140K (8-bit)
Qwen3.5-27BQ4_K_M17.98 GBFits~33 tok/s74K · 140K (8-bit)
IBM Granite 4.2 30BQ4_K_M17.72 GBFits~36 tok/s19K · 37K (8-bit)
Microsoft Fara1.5 27BQ4_K_M17.53 GBFits~34 tok/s81K · 153K (8-bit)
Qwen3.8-27BQ4_K_M17.44 GBFits~34 tok/s82K · 155K (8-bit)
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_M17.04 GBFits~185 tok/s256K (full)
Kvark Sparkle 1.1 27BQ4_K_M16.81 GBFits~35 tok/s92K · 173K (8-bit)
LFM2.5-24B-A2BQ4_K_M14.53 GBFits~170 tok/s128K (full)
Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506Q4_K_M14.33 GBFits~45 tok/s51K · 97K (8-bit)
Devstral-Small-2505Q4_K_M14.33 GBFits~45 tok/s51K · 97K (8-bit)
gpt-oss-20bQ4_K_M11.67 GBFits~214 tok/s128K (full)
phi-4Q4_K_M9.05 GBFits~69 tok/s16K (full)
JetBrains Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B ThinkingQ4_K_M8.07 GBFits~241 tok/s128K (full)
Gemma 4 12BQ4_K_M7.12 GBFits~85 tok/s256K (full)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4BQ4_K_M6.18 GBFits~97 tok/s64K (full)
Qwen3.5-9BQ4_K_M6.17 GBFits~79 tok/s256K (full)
Ternary Bonsai 2 27BPTQ1_0 ternary5.95 GBFits~81 tok/s254K · 256K (8-bit)
Microsoft Fara1.5 9BQ4_K_M5.91 GBFits~81 tok/s256K (full)
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9BQ4_K_M5.84 GBFits~82 tok/s256K (full)
ZoomGain-9BQ4_K_M5.63 GBFits~84 tok/s256K (full)
K2-Horizon-7BQ4_K_M5.59 GBFits~106 tok/s115K · 217K (8-bit)
webAI TwIL-8B Math and code reasoningQ4_K_M5.35 GBFits~110 tok/s105K · 128K (8-bit)
IBM Granite 4.2 8BQ4_K_M5.35 GBFits~110 tok/s105K · 128K (8-bit)
PLaMo 3 Translate 8B Translation onlyQ4_K_M5.28 GBFits~111 tok/s32K (full)
LFM2.5-8B-A1BQ4_K_M5.16 GBFits~183 tok/s128K (full)
Gemma 4 E4BQ4_K_M4.98 GBFits~117 tok/s128K (full)
Spark-X2.6-4BQ4_K_M3.54 GBFits~155 tok/s512K · 967K (8-bit)
Gemma 4 E2BQ4_K_M3.46 GBFits~158 tok/s128K (full)
Qwen3.5-4BQ4_K_M3.01 GBFits~124 tok/s256K (full)
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BQ4_K_M2.9 GBFits~127 tok/s256K (full)
Microsoft Fara1.5 4BQ4_K_M2.88 GBFits~127 tok/s256K (full)
ZoomGain-4BQ4_K_M2.71 GBFits~131 tok/s256K (full)
IBM Granite 4.2 3BQ4_K_M2.24 GBFits~222 tok/s128K (full)
Raon-1 nano Early supportQ4_K_M2.08 GBWeights fit context unknown~150 tok/sUnknown (no KV data)
Ternary Bonsai 2 9BPTQ1_0 ternary2 GBFits~152 tok/s256K (full)
PLaMo 3 Translate 2B Translation onlyQ4_K_M1.81 GBFits~258 tok/s32K (full)
LFM3-1.7BQ4_K_M1.1 GBFits~191 tok/s256K (full)
LFM3-VL-2BQ4_K_M1.1 GBFits~191 tok/s128K (full)
Ternary Bonsai 2 4BPTQ1_0 ternary0.95 GBFits~200 tok/s256K (full)
MiniCPM-V 4.7 1BQ4_K_M0.67 GBFits~218 tok/s256K (full)
PLaMo 3 Translate 0.8B Translation onlyQ4_K_M0.57 GBFits~489 tok/s32K (full)
BotPsy-0.8BQ4_K_M0.53 GBFits~228 tok/s256K (full)
Ternary Bonsai 2 2BPTQ1_0 ternary0.43 GBFits~236 tok/s256K (full)
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M19.85 GBFits~33 tok/s11K · 22K (8-bit)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B OlderQ4_K_M19.85 GBFits~33 tok/s11K · 22K (8-bit)
Qwen3-32B OlderQ4_K_M19.76 GBFits~33 tok/s12K · 22K (8-bit)
Qwen3-30B-A3B OlderQ4_K_M18.63 GBFits~214 tok/s40K (full)
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M18.56 GBFits~214 tok/s44K · 83K (8-bit)
gemma-3-27b-it OlderQ4_K_M16.55 GBFits~39 tok/s69K · 128K (8-bit)
LFM2-24B-A2B OlderQ4_K_M14.42 GBFits~170 tok/s128K (full)
Qwen3-14B OlderQ4_K_M9 GBFits~69 tok/s40K (full)
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M8.99 GBFits~69 tok/s32K (full)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B OlderQ4_K_M8.99 GBFits~69 tok/s69K · 128K (8-bit)
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 OlderQ4_K_M7.48 GBFits~82 tok/s92K · 128K (8-bit)
gemma-3-12b-it OlderQ4_K_M7.3 GBFits~83 tok/s128K (full)
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 OlderQ4_K_M6.53 GBFits~75 tok/s128K (full)
Qwen3-8B OlderQ4_K_M5.03 GBFits~116 tok/s40K (full)
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M4.92 GBFits~118 tok/s128K (full)
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M4.68 GBFits~123 tok/s32K (full)
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 OlderQ4_K_M4.37 GBFits~130 tok/s32K (full)
Qwen3-4B OlderQ4_K_M2.5 GBFits~204 tok/s40K (full)
gemma-3-4b-it OlderQ4_K_M2.49 GBFits~205 tok/s128K (full)
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M2.02 GBFits~239 tok/s128K (full)
Qwen3-0.6B OlderQ4_K_M0.48 GBFits~523 tok/s40K (full)
K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4BQ4_K_M22.37 GBFits~191 tok/s3K · 5K (8-bit) Tight
K2-Horizon-32BQ4_K_M21.08 GBFits~31 tok/s7K · 13K (8-bit) Tight
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3BQ4_K_M25.48 GBNo——
Recursive Flint 40B-A2.5BQ4_125.99 GBNo——
Ripple-65B PreviewQ4_K_M38.8 GBNo——
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M42.52 GBNo——
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B OlderQ4_K_M42.52 GBNo——
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct OlderQ4_K_M47.42 GBNo——
Qwen3-Coder-NextQ4_K_M48.53 GBNo——
Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 78B-A3.5BQ4_K_M49.76 GBNo——
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BUD-Q4_K_XL50.22 GBNo——
gpt-oss-120bQ4_K_M62.84 GBNo——
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12BQ4_K_M70.1 GBNo——
Mistral Small 4 119BQ4_K_M72.64 GBNo——
GLM-4.5-Air OlderQ4_K_M73.5 GBNo——
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQ4_K_M77.62 GBNo——
Mistral Medium 3.5 128BQ4_K_M78.41 GBNo——
Ornith-1.5-122BQ4_K_M78.92 GBNo——
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B OlderUD-Q4_K_M82.54 GBNo——
Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQ4_K_M119.6 GBNo——
Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQ4_K_M119.6 GBNo——
StepFun Step 3.7 FlashUD-Q4_K_M122.09 GBNo——
Qwen3-235B-A22BQ4_K_M142.15 GBNo——
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash Unsloth 2-bitUD-Q2_K_XL143.91 GBNo——
DeepSeek-V4-FlashUD-Q4_K_XL155.1 GBNo——
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash Q2_KQ2_K155.91 GBNo——
Thinking Machines Inkling-Small OlderQ4_K_M159.34 GBNo——
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash 309B-A15BMXFP4167.37 GBNo——
GLM-5.3-FlashUD-Q4_K_XL199.71 GBNo——
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashQ4_K_M258.01 GBNo——
Reflection Beam 1.0 501B-A23BQ4_K_M302.41 GBNo——
Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small Early supportUD-Q4_K_XL354.15 GBNo——
inclusionAI Ling-3.1-flash 560B-A25BQ4_K_M357.97 GBNo——
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017)UD-Q4_K_XL500.71 GBNo——
Meta Muse Spark Open 816B-A42BUD-Q4_K_XL505.5 GBNo——
Mistral Large 4UD-Q4_K_XL605 GBNo——

Q4_K_M unless the row says otherwise; UD- sizes are unsloth dynamic quants, the only Q4 build published for those models. Max context is an estimate of the longest context whose KV cache fits beside the model: default FP16 cache, then 8-bit (q8_0).

Speed calculator

estimate

Estimate = bandwidth ÷ GB read per token (the model's listed GGUF file: Q4_K_M for most models, otherwise the quant named in the list; scaled by active/total parameters for MoE), scaled by a per-platform efficiency and fixed per-token costs calibrated to 45 measured llama.cpp benchmarks (2025–26). Fit = file size + 1.5 GB headroom ≤ total VRAM (on Macs, the part of unified memory macOS lets the GPU use by default), and room for at least 4K tokens of context with an 8-bit KV cache. For a model with no KV cache data, only the file and headroom are checked, so a fit says nothing about context. Multi-GPU: VRAM adds, speed stays one card's (a layer split runs the cards in turn); max context uses the total. Speed is for short context. Max context = what is left after the file and a 1 GB runtime reserve ÷ KV cache bytes per token, default FP16 and 8-bit (q8_0) cache. How speed works · how context works