NVIDIA RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB for local LLMs
138 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 and 3 on the NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 6.2x higher on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 (1,792 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 5090, 288 on the NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,792 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 419 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 138
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 31.9 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 3
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 5090 | NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 44.9 t/sQ6_K | 1.4 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 20.3 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 163.0 t/sQ5_K_M | 12.5 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 44.9 t/sQ6_K | 1.4 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 114.5 t/sQ6_K | 47.0 t/sQ2_K |
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