NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU: Specs, VRAM, Price & Benchmarks (2026)
The RTX A5000 is a real GPU (launched 2021), but no provider on Aquanode is listing it for rental right now, so there is no live hourly price to quote. Availability changes as providers add and retire hardware; the specs, VRAM and price context below still apply.
How much VRAM does the RTX A5000 have?
The RTX A5000 has 24GB GDDR6 with ECC, with 768 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.
RTX A5000 VRAM calculator: check which models fit in its memory at each precision.
All models that fit in 24 GB: the open models whose weights and overhead fit, at native, FP8 and INT4 precision.
What can the RTX A5000 run?
Popular open models from small to frontier scale, with the memory each needs and how many RTX A5000 cards (24GB GDDR6 with ECC each) that takes.
| Model | As published | FP8 | INT4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen3-8B 8.2B | BF16: ~18.3 GB, 1 GPU | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~4.6 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct 14.8B | BF16: ~33 GB, 2 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~8.3 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen3-32B 32.8B | BF16: ~73.2 GB, 4 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~18.3 GB, 1 GPU |
| Qwen/Qwen-72B 72.3B | BF16: ~162 GB, 7 GPUs | FP8: not supported | INT4: ~40.4 GB, 2 GPUs |
| MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 228.7B | FP8: not supported | – | INT4: ~128 GB, 6 GPUs |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 684.5B | FP8: not supported | – | INT4: ~383 GB, 16 GPUs |
Estimates: weights at the stated precision plus a flat 20% for KV cache and overhead, at a moderate context length. A dash means the precision is not offered for that model (it is already published at that size). INT4 needs a published quantized checkpoint. Open any model for a per-GPU breakdown, or use the RTX A5000 VRAM calculator.
RTX A5000 specs
| Architecture | launched 2021 |
| VRAM | 24GB GDDR6 with ECC |
| Memory bandwidth | 768 GB/s |
| Interconnect | NVLink, 112.5 GB/s bidirectional |
| TDP | 230W |
| Form factor | PCIe, dual-slot |
Specs sourced from the vendor's public product page. See the source.
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Good for
A 230W workstation card with 24GB of ECC memory and a real NVLink bridge. The same VRAM as an RTX 4090 or 3090 but with error correction and half the power draw, which is what makes it worth renting for a long fine-tuning run you can't afford to have corrupted.
Not good for
Ampere, so no FP8 tensor cores and no FP8 serving. 768 GB/s is well under what the HBM data-center parts do, and 24GB rules out 70B-class models even in INT4 without offload.
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