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 128k context it runs 73 of the 125 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is Qwen 3.8 Flash Next at UD-Q3_K_XL, at about 8 tok/s (estimated). We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in the US.

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

Prices

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What two of them run

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

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @128kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q3_K_XLfits88.8 GB256k

8tok/sest.

122 tok/s–
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits37.0 GB256k

13tok/sest.

214 tok/schat
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits90.2 GB256k

27tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.6 GB256k

13tok/sest.

214 tok/schat
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits83.9 GB256k

39tok/sest.

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

OpenAI

MXFP4fits65.4 GB128k

36tok/sest.

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

NVIDIA

Q5_K_Mfits93.0 GB256k

27tok/sest.

535 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits43.0 GB256k

11tok/sest.

203 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q5_K_Mfits87.7 GB383k608k with q8 cache

35tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.8 GB256k

49tok/sest.

1041 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.6 GB256k

13tok/sest.

214 tok/schat
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits29.6 GB256k

41tok/sest.

1263 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mfits92.8 GB128k

8tok/sest.

99 tok/schat
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.8 GB256k

49tok/sest.

1041 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits83.9 GB256k

45tok/sest.

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

Z.ai

Q8_0fits38.1 GB198k

23tok/sest.

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

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB384k

10tok/sest.

192 tok/schat
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits35.2 GB256k

68tok/sest.

1400 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q8_0fits51.5 GB1024k

67tok/sest.

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

OpenAI

MXFP4fits16.1 GB128k

51tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits44.1 GB256k

18tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits66.3 GB40k

7tok/sest.

86 tok/s–
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits16.0 GB256k

31tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits14.8 GB256k

34tok/sest.

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

Google

Q8_0fits39.0 GB128k

12tok/sest.

262 tok/schat
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB128k

10tok/sest.

192 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits66.3 GB128k

7tok/sest.

115 tok/s–
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q5_K_Mfits88.4 GB128k

5tok/sest.

56 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits35.2 GB256k

13tok/sest.

246 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.5 GB40k

13tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits28.0 GB128k

17tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits28.0 GB40k

17tok/sest.

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

Microsoft

Q8_0fits41.4 GB16k

11tok/sest.

210 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits10.1 GB256k

54tok/sest.

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

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits27.3 GB256k

18tok/sest.

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

IBM

Q8_0fits30.6 GB128k

15tok/sest.

288 tok/schat, coding, agents
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits13.0 GB128k

40tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits16.2 GB125k

38tok/sest.

1170 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits24.0 GB128k

20tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits3.8 GB32k

222tok/sest.

2629 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3.5 0.8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits4.1 GB256k

195tok/sest.

3506 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.5 2B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits4.7 GB256k

155tok/sest.

2242 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits7.1 GB128k

84tok/sest.

1175 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking

JetBrains

Q8_0fits15.7 GB128k

62tok/sest.

1354 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Spark X2.5 4B

XHToken

mlx-4bitfits9.2 GB1024k

60tok/sest.

962 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits9.6 GB128k

57tok/sest.

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

Microsoft

Q8_0fits10.2 GB256k

53tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits12.0 GB128k

44tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits12.0 GB32k

44tok/sest.

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

Moonshot AI

Q8_0fits21.5 GB128k

40tok/sest.

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

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits22.2 GB128k

39tok/sest.

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

Z.ai

mlx-5bitfits14.5 GB32k

35tok/sest.

282 tok/schat, coding, agents
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits15.2 GB128k

33tok/sest.

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

IBM

Q8_0fits15.5 GB128k

33tok/sest.

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

Z.ai

Q8_0fits16.2 GB128k

31tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits16.4 GB128k

31tok/sest.

419 tok/schat, coding, long documents
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits17.8 GB64k

28tok/sest.

274 tok/schat, coding
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits18.3 GB256k

27tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits35.6 GB128k

22tok/sest.

684 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits25.8 GB128k

19tok/sest.

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

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits27.3 GB256k

18tok/sest.

321 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED

OBLITERATUS

mlx-4bitfits29.2 GB256k

16tok/sest.

214 tok/schat, coding
Muse Glimmer 30B

meta-models

Q8_0fits33.7 GB128k

14tok/sest.

233 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits35.2 GB256k

13tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits40.5 GB128k

12tok/sest.

185 tok/schat, coding
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB128k

10tok/sest.

193 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB40k

10tok/sest.

193 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB40k

10tok/sest.

193 tok/schat
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits45.2 GB128k

10tok/sest.

192 tok/schat
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mfits84.1 GB64k

9tok/sest.

99 tok/schat
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mfits90.5 GB128k

8tok/sest.

99 tok/schat
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits62.8 GB128k

7tok/sest.

137 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q5_K_Mfits88.4 GB128k

5tok/sest.

56 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload102.8 GB39k69k with q8 cache

10tok/sest.

41 tok/schat, coding
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload104.6 GB–

16tok/sest.

67 tok/schat
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLoffload103.0 GB95k175k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

136 tok/schat, coding
Kimi Dev 72B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Koffload101.8 GB106k128k with q8 cache

3tok/sest.

53 tok/s–
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Moffload115.6 GB68k127k with q8 cache

2tok/sest.

29 tok/s–
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Moffload115.6 GB68k127k with q8 cache

2tok/sest.

29 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.1 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.6 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Zero

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run388.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run388.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run388.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run158.2 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run167.0 GB––––
GLM 4.5

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run249.4 GB––––
GLM 4.6

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run248.6 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run249.4 GB––––
GLM 5

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run395.2 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run432.8 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run446.7 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run759.1 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run588.6 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run589.0 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run589.0 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run589.0 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run161.7 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run161.7 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run148.1 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run256.5 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 Flash Next (UD-Q3_K_XL) fits fully in its memory at 128k context and generates at about 8 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 73 of the 125 models we track fit at that context.
Can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 run DeepSeek V4 Flash?
Not fully in memory: at UD-Q2_K_XL and 128k context DeepSeek V4 Flash needs about 103 GB, so part of it runs from system RAM and it slows to about 10 tok/s (estimated).
How much does the NVIDIA RTX A6000 cost in the US?
We have no current price for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 in the US.

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