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 8k context it runs 68 of the 125 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 27B at Q8_0, at about 16 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 @8kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits28.4 GB256k

16tok/sest.

305 tok/schat
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits40.0 GB256k

77tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits28.0 GB256k

16tok/sest.

305 tok/schat
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits46.2 GB48k78k with q8 cache

108tok/sest.

2036 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits32.5 GB184k256k with q8 cache

14tok/sest.

266 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits38.4 GB332k528k with q8 cache

111tok/sest.

1053 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits35.3 GB256k

86tok/sest.

2611 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits28.0 GB256k

16tok/sest.

305 tok/schat
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits26.1 GB256k

63tok/sest.

1990 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kfits44.4 GB24k44k with q8 cache

39tok/sest.

480 tok/schat
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits46.2 GB49k79k with q8 cache

138tok/sest.

2560 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits35.3 GB256k

86tok/sest.

2611 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits30.8 GB198k

50tok/sest.

1461 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB144k262k with q8 cache

18tok/sest.

344 tok/schat
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits33.4 GB256k

83tok/sest.

2721 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits38.5 GB662k902k with q8 cache

111tok/sest.

2482 tok/schat, coding, long documents
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits12.2 GB128k

109tok/sest.

1890 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits31.7 GB165k256k with q8 cache

72tok/sest.

1889 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits35.2 GB40k

13tok/sest.

235 tok/s–
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits13.0 GB256k

36tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.9 GB256k

48tok/sest.

878 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB128k

18tok/sest.

344 tok/schat
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits28.5 GB128k

16tok/sest.

309 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits35.2 GB55k102k with q8 cache

13tok/sest.

246 tok/s–
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mfits42.8 GB22k41k with q8 cache

11tok/sest.

115 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits15.4 GB205k256k with q8 cache

30tok/sest.

570 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits16.6 GB40k

28tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits10.0 GB128k

48tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits10.0 GB40k

48tok/sest.

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

Microsoft

Q8_0fits16.8 GB16k

28tok/sest.

533 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits5.2 GB256k

99tok/sest.

1767 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits10.2 GB256k

47tok/sest.

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

IBM

Q8_0fits10.7 GB128k

45tok/sest.

860 tok/schat, coding, agents
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits8.6 GB128k

56tok/sest.

1064 tok/schat, coding, long documents
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits9.5 GB125k

195tok/sest.

6210 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits7.9 GB128k

62tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits1.3 GB32k

754tok/sest.

12996 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3.5 0.8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits1.6 GB256k

511tok/sest.

8941 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.5 2B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits2.2 GB256k

306tok/sest.

3668 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits2.7 GB128k

224tok/sest.

4090 tok/schat, coding, long documents
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits3.6 GB128k

157tok/sest.

2704 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits3.9 GB128k

141tok/sest.

2721 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 VL 3B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits3.9 GB32k

141tok/sest.

2402 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Spark X2.5 4B

XHToken

mlx-4bitfits3.9 GB1024k

140tok/sest.

1924 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits4.7 GB128k

111tok/sest.

1801 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits5.0 GB256k

105tok/sest.

1845 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits5.0 GB128k

104tok/sest.

1936 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits25.1 GB128k

102tok/sest.

3261 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking

JetBrains

Q8_0fits12.9 GB128k

101tok/sest.

2992 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
FrogNano 4B 2609

Microsoft

Q8_0fits5.3 GB256k

96tok/sest.

1767 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506

Moonshot AI

Q8_0fits16.8 GB128k

85tok/sest.

2522 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits17.6 GB128k

81tok/sest.

2522 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits8.7 GB128k

56tok/sest.

1032 tok/schat, coding, long documents
GLM 4 9B 0414

Z.ai

mlx-5bitfits8.7 GB32k

56tok/sest.

811 tok/schat, coding, agents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits9.7 GB128k

50tok/sest.

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

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits10.2 GB256k

47tok/sest.

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

Z.ai

Q8_0fits10.4 GB128k

46tok/sest.

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

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits12.0 GB64k

39tok/sest.

749 tok/schat, coding
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits15.4 GB205k256k with q8 cache

30tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits16.9 GB128k

28tok/sest.

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

OBLITERATUS

mlx-4bitfits20.6 GB256k

22tok/sest.

305 tok/schat, coding
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB128k

18tok/sest.

350 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB40k

18tok/sest.

350 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB40k

18tok/sest.

350 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits25.3 GB128k

18tok/sest.

344 tok/schat
Muse Glimmer 30B

meta-models

Q8_0fits31.0 GB128k

15tok/sest.

282 tok/s–
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits31.7 GB69k127k with q8 cache

14tok/sest.

277 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mfits42.8 GB22k41k with q8 cache

11tok/sest.

115 tok/s–
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload72.8 GB–

13tok/sest.

485 tok/s–
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Moffload59.5 GB–

32tok/sest.

1198 tok/schat, coding
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload51.9 GB–

31tok/sest.

673 tok/schat, coding, long documents
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Moffload61.4 GB–

10tok/sest.

397 tok/s–
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Moffload67.8 GB–

8tok/sest.

377 tok/s–
Kimi Dev 72B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Koffload63.2 GB–

2tok/sest.

95 tok/s–
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Moffload73.3 GB–

2tok/sest.

51 tok/s–
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Moffload73.3 GB–

2tok/sest.

50 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run91.6 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.2 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run74.5 GB––––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run377.9 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run378.4 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Zero

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run377.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run377.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run377.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run378.8 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run378.8 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run378.8 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run147.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run155.8 GB––––
GLM 4.5

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run205.2 GB––––
GLM 4.6

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run204.4 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run205.2 GB––––
GLM 5

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run383.8 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run421.4 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run435.3 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run747.8 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run579.4 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run579.9 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run579.9 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run579.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run131.5 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run131.5 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run118.0 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run241.4 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 8k context and generates at about 16 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 68 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 92 GB at 8k 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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