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NVIDIA RTX A5000

24GB Ampere workstation card. Tighter power envelope than RTX 3090.

Released 2021

Overview

24GB Ampere workstation card. Tighter power envelope than RTX 3090.

Specs

VRAM24 GB
Power draw230 W
Released2021
MSRP$2500
Backends
CUDA
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA RTX A5000 with usable context.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama
Qwen 3 8B
8B · qwen
Qwen 3 14B
14B · qwen
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
3B · llama
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7B · qwen
Phi-4 14B
14B · phi
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
7B · deepseek
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
14B · qwen
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Same VRAM tier and the one step above and below — so you can frame the buying decision against real options.

Step up
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Step down
Less VRAM — cheaper, more constrained

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA RTX A5000 run?

With 24GB VRAM, the NVIDIA RTX A5000 runs models up to ~32B in 4-bit, with room for context. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA RTX A5000 support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA RTX A5000 is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

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