NVIDIA RTX A6000

Hardware · NVIDIA

What AI models can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 run?

VRAM
48.0 GB
Usable for models
48.0 GB
Memory bandwidth
768 GB/s
FP16 compute
38.7 TFLOPS
Released
2020
Launch price
$4,650
523 / 622 LLMs run Best: MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 61 / 61 Image models run Best: Krea 2 Turbo 42 / 43 Video models run Best: LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio) 69 / 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 RTX A6000

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. JanPoint-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Linux

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

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

22 products with the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Best LLMs for the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB Q8_0 40.5 GB 99.5 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4BGoogle Q8_0 30.8 GB 85.3 tok/s Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B)Nex-AGI Q8_0 40.4 GB 99.5 tok/s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 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. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B)Kuaishou Q8_0 39.9 GB 99.5 tok/s Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 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. Sage-A1.5 35B-A3BInternScience Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s Runs great
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 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. Flint (40B-A2.5B)Recursive Q6_K 35.9 GB 135 tok/s Runs great
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 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. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3BDeepReinforce Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apodex 1.1 Mini (35B-A3B)Apodex Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.0 35B-A3BDeepReinforce Q6_K 32.6 GB 122 tok/s 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. GLM-4.7 Flash (30B-A3B)Zhipu AI Q8_0 36.5 GB 99.5 tok/s Runs great

Best Image models for the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Krea 2 TurboKrea FP16 37.4 GB 7.6 s Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs FP16 37.1 GB 3.2 s Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs FP16 22.4 GB 10 s Runs great
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 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. ERNIE-Image TurboBaidu FP16 26.4 GB 5.7 s Runs great
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen-Image 2.1 TurboAlibaba FP8 30.8 GB 18 s Runs well
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi) FP16 22.7 GB 4.4 s Runs great

Best Video models for the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.5 (22B, video + audio)Lightricks Q4 GGUF 39.9 GB 3.2 min Runs great
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-Video 13B 0.9.8 (distilled)Lightricks FP8 30.1 GB 1.6 min Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2.3Lightricks FP8 44.3 GB 10.6 min Runs welltight fit
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LTX-2 (19B, video + audio)Lightricks FP8 44.3 GB 10.6 min Runs welltight fit
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Wan 2.2 I2V A14BAlibaba FP8 38.3 GB 42.4 min Very slow

Best Decision models for the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Quality Model Quant Memory Speed Runs
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4BAlibaba F16 11.3 GB 96 ms Runs great
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. zerank-2ZeroEntropy F16 11.3 GB 96 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 4.4 GB 18 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. Shieldstral 1.0 3BMistral AI F16 10.9 GB 92 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 12.1 GB 66 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 4.4 GB 18 ms Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 8BAlibaba Q8_0 12.0 GB 172 ms Runs well
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 9.3 GB 47 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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