NVIDIA RTX A6000

48 GB · 768 GB/s · 300 W

In short

The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory with 768 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text. At 64k context it runs 63 of the 125 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 27B at Q8_0, at about 14 tok/s (estimated). We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in Germany.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

Prices

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What it runs

Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @64kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits32.3 GB256k

14tok/sest.

255 tok/schat
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits41.7 GB256k

56tok/sest.

530 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits31.8 GB256k

14tok/sest.

255 tok/schat
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits37.3 GB184k256k with q8 cache

12tok/sest.

232 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits39.9 GB332k528k with q8 cache

74tok/sest.

521 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.8 GB256k

64tok/sest.

1532 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits31.8 GB256k

14tok/sest.

255 tok/schat
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits27.5 GB256k

50tok/sest.

1569 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.8 GB256k

64tok/sest.

1532 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits34.0 GB198k

32tok/sest.

760 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB144k262k with q8 cache

13tok/sest.

251 tok/schat
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits34.1 GB256k

76tok/sest.

1889 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits39.3 GB662k902k with q8 cache

94tok/sest.

1231 tok/schat, coding, long documents
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits13.9 GB128k

71tok/sest.

1173 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits37.3 GB165k256k with q8 cache

30tok/sest.

548 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q6_Kfits42.1 GB40k

11tok/sest.

130 tok/schat
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits14.2 GB256k

34tok/sest.

603 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits12.0 GB256k

41tok/sest.

738 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits33.2 GB128k

14tok/sest.

285 tok/schat
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB128k

13tok/sest.

251 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q6_Kfits42.1 GB84k128k with q8 cache

11tok/sest.

161 tok/schat
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits24.4 GB205k256k with q8 cache

19tok/sest.

353 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits25.7 GB40k

18tok/sest.

309 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits18.2 GB128k

26tok/sest.

488 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits18.2 GB40k

26tok/sest.

488 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits28.1 GB16k

16tok/sest.

310 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits7.3 GB256k

71tok/sest.

1280 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits18.0 GB256k

26tok/sest.

483 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits19.8 GB128k

24tok/sest.

446 tok/schat, coding, agents
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits10.5 GB128k

47tok/sest.

967 tok/schat, coding, long documents
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits12.5 GB125k

67tok/sest.

2063 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits15.2 GB128k

31tok/sest.

524 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen2.5 0.5B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.3 GB32k

356tok/sest.

4576 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3.5 0.8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.6 GB256k

291tok/sest.

5188 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.5 2B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits3.2 GB256k

211tok/sest.

2828 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits4.6 GB128k

126tok/sest.

1895 tok/schat, coding, long documents
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits6.2 GB128k

87tok/sest.

1068 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Spark X2.5 4B

XHToken

mlx-4bitfits6.2 GB1024k

86tok/sest.

1312 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking

JetBrains

Q8_0fits14.0 GB128k

78tok/sest.

1912 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
FrogNano 4B 2609

Microsoft

Q8_0fits7.4 GB256k

70tok/sest.

1280 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits7.5 GB128k

69tok/sest.

1295 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 VL 3B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits7.5 GB32k

69tok/sest.

1218 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506

Moonshot AI

Q8_0fits18.8 GB128k

56tok/sest.

1315 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits19.6 GB128k

54tok/sest.

1315 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits9.4 GB128k

53tok/sest.

813 tok/schat, coding, long documents
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits9.7 GB128k

51tok/sest.

840 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits11.0 GB256k

45tok/sest.

804 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4 9B 0414

Z.ai

mlx-5bitfits11.3 GB32k

44tok/sest.

433 tok/schat, coding, agents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits12.1 GB128k

40tok/sest.

614 tok/schat, coding, long documents
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits29.8 GB128k

38tok/sest.

1182 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.6V Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits12.9 GB128k

38tok/sest.

414 tok/schat, coding, agents
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits14.5 GB64k

33tok/sest.

414 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits17.0 GB128k

28tok/sest.

524 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits18.0 GB256k

26tok/sest.

483 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits24.4 GB205k256k with q8 cache

19tok/sest.

353 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED

OBLITERATUS

mlx-4bitfits24.5 GB256k

19tok/sest.

255 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits27.7 GB128k

17tok/sest.

282 tok/schat, coding
Muse Glimmer 30B

meta-models

Q8_0fits32.1 GB128k

14tok/sest.

257 tok/s–
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB128k

13tok/sest.

254 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB40k

13tok/sest.

254 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB40k

13tok/sest.

254 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.4 GB128k

13tok/sest.

251 tok/schat
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits46.1 GB69k127k with q8 cache

10tok/sest.

188 tok/s–
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Moffload47.8 GB48k78k with q8 cache

66tok/sest.

1220 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload52.6 GB–

26tok/sest.

578 tok/schat, coding, long documents
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Moffload61.8 GB–

18tok/sest.

705 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Koffload54.8 GB24k44k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

158 tok/schat
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Moffload47.8 GB49k79k with q8 cache

77tok/sest.

1393 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Moffload60.7 GB22k41k with q8 cache

3tok/sest.

67 tok/s–
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Moffload71.8 GB–

4tok/sest.

135 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Moffload60.7 GB22k41k with q8 cache

3tok/sest.

67 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run96.6 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run103.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run76.1 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run86.7 GB––––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.0 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.5 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Zero

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run152.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run160.9 GB––––
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run92.8 GB––––
GLM 4.5

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run225.7 GB––––
GLM 4.6

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run224.9 GB––––
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run78.2 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run225.7 GB––––
GLM 5

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run388.9 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run426.5 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run440.4 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run752.9 GB––––
Kimi Dev 72B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kwon't run81.0 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.5 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.9 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.9 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run145.4 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run145.4 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run131.8 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run248.3 GB––––
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run92.8 GB––––

Specifications

From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.

GPU
RTX A6000
Memory
48 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
384-bit
Memory bandwidth
768 GB/s
FP16 compute
38.71 TFLOPS
Software
CUDA
Board power
300 W
PCIe generation
Gen 4
PCIe lanes
x16

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Questions

How much memory does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 have for AI models?
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory with 768 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text.
What is the best model the NVIDIA RTX A6000 can run locally?
Qwen 3.8 27B (Q8_0) fits fully in its memory at 64k context and generates at about 14 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 63 of the 125 models we track fit at that context.
Can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 run DeepSeek V4 Flash?
No: even at UD-Q2_K_XL, DeepSeek V4 Flash needs about 97 GB at 64k context, more than the NVIDIA RTX A6000 and system RAM can hold.
How much does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 cost in Germany?
We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in Germany.

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