NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 22 models fully in memory, the second 60.
In short
The NVIDIA RTX A6000 has more memory for models: 48 GB against 16 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX A6000 runs 60 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 22; only the NVIDIA RTX A6000 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 1.2× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (estimated, median across models).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | RTX A6000 |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR7 | 48 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 896 GB/s | 768 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 88 TFLOPS | 38.71 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 300 W | 300 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 5 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | 43tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | 11tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | 53tok/sUD-Q2_K_XL |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | 49tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 41tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | 49tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | 23tok/sQ8_0 |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | 68tok/sUD-Q6_K_XL |
| gpt-oss 20B | 60tok/sQ4_K_M | 51tok/sMXFP4 |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | 80tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 45tok/sQ6_K | 31tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 34tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | 12tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | 17tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | 17tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | 11tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 63tok/sQ8_0 | 54tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | 15tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 46tok/sQ8_0 | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 46tok/sUD-Q6_K | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | 20tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 259tok/sQ8_0 | 222tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 228tok/sQ8_0 | 195tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 181tok/sQ5_K_M | 155tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 98tok/sQ8_0 | 84tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | 73tok/sQ8_0 | 62tok/sQ8_0 |
| Spark X2.5 4B | 70tok/smlx-4bit | 60tok/smlx-4bit |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 67tok/sQ8_0 | 57tok/sQ8_0 |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 | 62tok/sQ8_0 | 53tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 | 56tok/sQ4_K_M | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 51tok/sQ8_0 | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 51tok/sQ8_0 | 44tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | 48tok/sQ4_K_M | 31tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 | 41tok/smlx-5bit | 35tok/smlx-5bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | 40tok/sQ6_K | 31tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | 39tok/sQ8_0 | 33tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | 38tok/sQ8_0 | 33tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | 39tok/smlx-8bit |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | offload | 27tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | 28tok/smlx-8bit |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | offload | 14tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | 19tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | 22tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | 18tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED | offload | 16tok/smlx-4bit |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | offload | 13tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | 12tok/sQ8_0 |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | offload |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | offload |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | offload |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi Dev 72B | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
- Choose the NVIDIA RTX A6000 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for speed.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
- At 128k context the NVIDIA RTX A6000 runs 60 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 22; only the NVIDIA RTX A6000 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX A6000?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is about 1.2× as fast as the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (estimated, median across models).
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