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NVIDIA RTX A5000: local LLM speed
Llama 2 7B (Q4_0) generates 140 tokens/s on the NVIDIA RTX A5000 (Vulkan), and processes prompts at 4,071 tokens/s.
Measured results
| Model | Generate tok/s | Prompt tok/s | Quant | Backend | Test | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 2 7B | 140 | 4,071 | Q4_0 | Vulkan FA on | tg128 | llama.cpp #10879 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 140 | 3,642 | Q4_0 | Vulkan FA off | tg128 | llama.cpp #10879 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 136 | 4,552 | Q4_0 | CUDA FA on | tg128 | llama.cpp #15013 details |
| Llama 2 7B | 130 | 4,028 | Q4_0 | CUDA FA off | tg128 | llama.cpp #15013 details |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | 310 | 12,138 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg | LocalScore details |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 89.0 | 2,891 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg | LocalScore details |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | 50.4 | 1,532 | Q4_K_M | llamafile | LocalScore avg | LocalScore details |
What fits on the NVIDIA RTX A5000
Estimates for this chip are scaled from a measured run: Llama 2 7B Q4_0 at 140 tok/s (Vulkan, source). Fit assumes the whole model in GPU memory with ~8K context.
| Model | Best quant that fits | File | Expected tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B | UD-Q6_K | 22.0 GB | 24.4 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it | Q8_0 | 12.7 GB | 42.4 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 56.3 estimate |
| Qwen3.5-4B | Q8_0 | 4.5 GB | 120 estimate |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | UD-Q4_K_S | 20.9 GB | 150 estimate |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | UD-Q5_K_M | 21.2 GB | 82.5 estimate |
| MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B | Q8_0 | 9.5 GB | 56.2 estimate |
| gemma-4-E4B-it | Q8_0 | 8.2 GB | 65.5 estimate |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | UD-Q5_K_M | 19.2 GB | 28.0 estimate |
| Qwen3-4B | Q8_0 | 4.3 GB | 125 estimate |
| gemma-4-31B-it | Q5_K_M | 21.7 GB | 24.8 estimate |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | UD-Q4_K_XL | 14.2 GB | 122 estimate |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | UD-Q4_K_XL | 6.7 GB | 79.9 estimate |
| gemma-3-1b-it | Q8_0 | 1.1 GB | 447 estimate |
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