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 32k context it runs 65 of the 125 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 27B at Q8_0, at about 15 tok/s (estimated). We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in the UK.
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.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @32k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 30.1 GB | 256k | 15tok/sest. | 281 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 40.7 GB | 256k | 66tok/sest. | 659 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 29.7 GB | 256k | 15tok/sest. | 281 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | fits | 46.9 GB | 48k78k with q8 cache | 88tok/sest. | 1588 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | fits | 34.6 GB | 184k256k with q8 cache | 13tok/sest. | 250 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 39.0 GB | 332k528k with q8 cache | 91tok/sest. | 732 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.9 GB | 256k | 75tok/sest. | 2006 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 29.7 GB | 256k | 15tok/sest. | 281 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | fits | 26.7 GB | 256k | 57tok/sest. | 1785 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | fits | 46.9 GB | 49k79k with q8 cache | 107tok/sest. | 1889 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.9 GB | 256k | 75tok/sest. | 2006 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 32.2 GB | 198k | 41tok/sest. | 1047 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 144k262k with q8 cache | 16tok/sest. | 297 tok/s | chat |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | fits | 33.7 GB | 256k | 80tok/sest. | 2289 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q6_K | fits | 38.9 GB | 662k902k with q8 cache | 103tok/sest. | 1729 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 12.9 GB | 128k | 88tok/sest. | 1497 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 34.1 GB | 165k256k with q8 cache | 45tok/sest. | 922 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 41.3 GB | 40k | 11tok/sest. | 174 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 13.5 GB | 256k | 35tok/sest. | 652 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 10.8 GB | 256k | 45tok/sest. | 812 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 128k | 16tok/sest. | 297 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q8_0 | fits | 30.5 GB | 128k | 15tok/sest. | 298 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 41.3 GB | 55k102k with q8 cache | 11tok/sest. | 200 tok/s | – |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 19.3 GB | 205k256k with q8 cache | 24tok/sest. | 451 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 20.5 GB | 40k | 23tok/sest. | 406 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 13.5 GB | 128k | 35tok/sest. | 669 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 13.5 GB | 40k | 35tok/sest. | 669 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 21.6 GB | 16k | 21tok/sest. | 408 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 6.1 GB | 256k | 85tok/sest. | 1519 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 13.5 GB | 256k | 35tok/sest. | 646 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 14.6 GB | 128k | 32tok/sest. | 615 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 9.4 GB | 128k | 52tok/sest. | 1020 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.8 GB | 125k | 107tok/sest. | 3336 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 11.0 GB | 128k | 44tok/sest. | 707 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.8 GB | 32k | 510tok/sest. | 7266 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 2.0 GB | 256k | 386tok/sest. | 6825 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 2.6 GB | 256k | 256tok/sest. | 3254 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 3.5 GB | 128k | 168tok/sest. | 2733 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 4.7 GB | 128k | 116tok/sest. | 1633 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Spark X2.5 4B XHToken | mlx-4bit | fits | 4.9 GB | 1024k | 111tok/sest. | 1603 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 5.4 GB | 128k | 97tok/sest. | 1849 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 5.4 GB | 32k | 97tok/sest. | 1696 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 128k | 90tok/sest. | 2409 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 6.2 GB | 256k | 83tok/sest. | 1519 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 6.8 GB | 128k | 76tok/sest. | 1185 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 7.0 GB | 128k | 72tok/sest. | 1242 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Moonshot AI | Q8_0 | fits | 17.6 GB | 128k | 69tok/sest. | 1810 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-8bit | fits | 18.4 GB | 128k | 67tok/sest. | 1810 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 7.5 GB | 256k | 67tok/sest. | 1187 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 27.1 GB | 128k | 59tok/sest. | 1859 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 Z.ai | mlx-5bit | fits | 9.8 GB | 32k | 50tok/sest. | 590 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 10.2 GB | 128k | 48tok/sest. | 799 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 11.5 GB | 128k | 42tok/sest. | 556 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 12.8 GB | 128k | 37tok/sest. | 707 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | fits | 13.1 GB | 64k | 36tok/sest. | 556 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 13.5 GB | 256k | 35tok/sest. | 646 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 19.3 GB | 205k256k with q8 cache | 24tok/sest. | 451 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 21.5 GB | 128k | 22tok/sest. | 382 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED OBLITERATUS | mlx-4bit | fits | 22.3 GB | 256k | 21tok/sest. | 281 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 128k | 16tok/sest. | 301 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 40k | 16tok/sest. | 301 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 40k | 16tok/sest. | 301 tok/s | chat |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.2 GB | 128k | 16tok/sest. | 297 tok/s | chat |
| Muse Glimmer 30B meta-models | Q8_0 | fits | 31.5 GB | 128k | 15tok/sest. | 271 tok/s | – |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 37.9 GB | 69k127k with q8 cache | 12tok/sest. | 230 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 52.2 GB | – | 29tok/sest. | 629 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | Q4_K_M | offload | 60.5 GB | – | 24tok/sest. | 924 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q2_K | offload | 48.8 GB | 24k44k with q8 cache | 19tok/sest. | 267 tok/s | chat |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q4_K_M | offload | 50.5 GB | 22k41k with q8 cache | 6tok/sest. | 91 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 50.5 GB | 22k41k with q8 cache | 6tok/sest. | 91 tok/s | – |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | offload | 65.9 GB | – | 6tok/sest. | 220 tok/s | – |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | offload | 72.2 GB | – | 5tok/sest. | 210 tok/s | – |
| Kimi Dev 72B Moonshot AI | Q6_K | offload | 70.8 GB | – | 2tok/sest. | 74 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 93.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 75.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 78.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 149.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 158.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 214.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 213.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 214.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 386.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 423.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 437.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 750.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 137.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 137.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 123.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 244.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 81.6 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 32k context and generates at about 15 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 65 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 94 GB at 32k context, more than the NVIDIA RTX A6000 and system RAM can hold.
- How much does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 cost in the UK?
- We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in the UK.
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