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NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB)

The NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB) features 24 GB of dedicated VRAM and 768 GB/s memory bandwidth, supporting CUDA and TensorRT-LLM runtimes for full-precision and quantized inference.

Memory

24 GB

Usable Memory Ceiling

24 GB

Bandwidth

768 GB/s

Max Inference Class

32B Models (Q4)

TDP

230W

VRAM Scaling by Context Length

Estimated memory requirements as context length increases. Curves crossing above the reference line indicate Out of Memory (OOM).

DeepSeek-R1 3B (3B)Mistral-7B-v0.1 (7.3B)Mistral-Small-2501 (24B)Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B A9B (74B)

Precision:

Best Models to Run on NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB)

Inference throughput, memory compatibility, and generation speeds for open-weights LLMs on NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB).

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Context:

KV Cache:

GPUs:

RankModelParametersPrecisionTPS (Approx.)TTFTCan Run

#36

Qwen 3.8 27B

27B

INT4

38 tok/s

~2.7s

#80

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B

36B (4B active)

INT4

130 tok/s

~569 ms

#86

Qwen3.5-27B

27B

INT4

38 tok/s

~2.7s

#93

Sarvam-30B

32B (2.4B active)

INT4

169 tok/s

~367 ms

#99

Muse Glimmer 30B

30B

INT4

35 tok/s

~2.9s

#102

Phi-4 Reasoning Plus

14B

INT4
Q8

49 tok/s

34 tok/s

~1.4s

~1.4s

#103

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

147 tok/s

~464 ms

#105

MiMo V2 Flash

15B (309B active)

INT4
Q8

4 tok/s

2 tok/s

~29.0s

~31.7s

#110

Gemma 4 26B A4B

25.2B (3.8B active)

INT4

145 tok/s

~480 ms

#120

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

147 tok/s

~464 ms

#121

Qwen3.5-9B

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

93 tok/s

59 tok/s

31 tok/s

~908 ms

~915 ms

~1.0s

#127

K2 Horizon 7B

7B

INT4
Q8
FP16

111 tok/s

72 tok/s

41 tok/s

~712 ms

~717 ms

~728 ms

#130

Gemma 4 12B

11.95B

INT4
Q8

56 tok/s

39 tok/s

~1.2s

~1.2s

#136

Qwen3.5-4B

4B

INT4
Q8
FP16

157 tok/s

109 tok/s

65 tok/s

~420 ms

~423 ms

~429 ms

#139

GPT-OSS 20B

21B (3.6B active)

INT4

76 tok/s

~456 ms

#140

GLM-4V

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

69 tok/s

49 tok/s

28 tok/s

~912 ms

~918 ms

~1.0s

#145

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B

3.5B (30B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

33 tok/s

20 tok/s

10 tok/s

~2.9s

~2.9s

~2.9s

#150

Qwen3-30B-A3B

30B (3B active)

INT4

157 tok/s

~419 ms

#152

Granite 4.2 8B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

102 tok/s

65 tok/s

36 tok/s

~809 ms

~815 ms

~827 ms

#157

Gemma 4 E4B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

102 tok/s

65 tok/s

36 tok/s

~809 ms

~815 ms

~827 ms

Inference Capacity

Maximum model parameter class runnable by weight precision.

Context:

4-bit

Q4

32B Models

8-bit

Q8

14B Models

16-bit

FP16

8B Models

Fine-Tuning Capacity

Hardware capacity for local training and adapter fine-tuning.

Context Length:

QLoRA

4-bit

32B Models

LoRA

16-bit

14B Models

Full Parameter Training

3B Models

Workload Recommendations

Guidance for optimal precision and operational ceilings on NVIDIA RTX A5000 (24GB).

Inference Sweet Spot

Optimized for 14B models at uncompressed or Q8 precision, and 32B models at Q4 with up to 32k context.

Bandwidth & Speed Profile

With 768 GB/s aggregate bandwidth, batch size 1 inference operates in a memory-bandwidth bound regime. Generates approximately 171 tok/s on an 8B Q4 model and 20 tok/s on a 70B Q4 model.

Frequently Asked Questions