NVIDIA A10

Hardware · NVIDIA

What AI models can the NVIDIA A10 run?

VRAM
24.0 GB
Usable for models
24.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
600 GB/s
FP16 compute
31.2 TFLOPS
Released
2021
496 / 622 LLMs run Best: Gemma 4 26B-A4B 58 / 61 Image models run Best: Krea 2 Turbo 31 / 43 Video models run Best: LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio) 68 / 70 Decision models run Best: Qwen3 Reranker 4B

More about this hardware

MakerNVIDIA
TypeWorkstation / datacenter graphics card
InterfacePCIe 4.0

Apps that run models well on the NVIDIA A10

Linux

  1. vLLMThe full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
  2. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  3. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  4. SGLangThe full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

Windows

  1. OllamaOne command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  2. LM StudioPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  3. llama.cppUsually the first to support new model architectures.
  4. vLLMThe full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

For a typical model that fits in memory. Each model page picks the best app for that model on this hardware. All apps

Best LLMs for the NVIDIA A10

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4BGoogle Q6_K 23.4 GB 90.5 tok/s Runs welltight fit
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB Q4_K_M 23.4 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B)Nex-AGI Q4_K_M 23.4 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba Q4_K_M 19.3 GB 26.5 tok/s Runs well
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B)Kuaishou Q4_K_M 23.1 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Sage-A1.5 35B-A3BInternScience Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Raon-1 mini Preview (30B-A4B)KRAFTON Q4_K_M 19.4 GB 109 tok/s Runs great
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3BDeepReinforce Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba Q4_K_M 19.3 GB 26.5 tok/s Runs well
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apodex 1.1 Mini (35B-A3B)Apodex Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 134 tok/s Runs welltight fit

Best Image models for the NVIDIA A10

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Krea 2 TurboKrea FP8 20.2 GB 8.0 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu Q8 GGUF 15.0 GB 7.6 s Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs FP8 19.9 GB 3.4 s Runs great
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs FP8 12.4 GB 11 s Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs FP16 18.1 GB 2.1 s Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) Q8 GGUF 13.0 GB 6.0 s Runs great

Best Video models for the NVIDIA A10

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio)Lightricks FP8 19.7 GB 3.7 min Runs greatCPU offload
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Bernini-R A14B (video generation + editing)ByteDance FP8 20.3 GB 23.5 min Slowencoder in RAM
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 2BLightricks FP16 17.5 GB 52 s Runs great
45Fair quality (C) · 45 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. CogVideoX 2BZhipu AI FP16 17.5 GB 2.1 min Runs great
72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FramePack I2V (HunyuanVideo 13B)lllyasviel FP8 19.6 GB 13.1 min Slowencoder in RAM

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA A10

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba Q8_0 6.4 GB 106 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy Q8_0 6.4 GB 106 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5Jina AI F16 3.2 GB 21 ms Runs great
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Shieldstral 1.0 3BMistral AI Q8_0 6.1 GB 102 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intern-Decision 4BShanghai AI Lab F16 10.9 GB 82 ms Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3Jina AI F16 3.2 GB 21 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. d1 3BLiquid AI F16 8.1 GB 58 ms Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. mxbai-rerank-large v2Mixedbread F16 4.9 GB 48 ms Runs great

Best LLMs by task on this hardware Open in Model Finder

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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