RTX A1000
The RTX A1000 is Nvidia’s 8GB graphics card with a 50W board power rating, built on the Ampere architecture. Below you’ll find what it can run locally, its benchmark scores and its full spec sheet, plus all 1 board version we track, each with its cheapest current price.
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Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
Render
3D graphics
Local AI performance
What the RTX A1000 can run on your own machine, and how fast.
Largest model it can run (8K context)
- Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
- ~9.3B
- Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
- ~5.3B
- FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
- ~2.8B
Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.
Speed & value
- Speed, 8B model at Q4
- 29-34 tok/s
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- Price per GB of VRAM
- $63.75
Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.
Models that fit, at Q4
| Model | Size | Memory needed | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glm4 9B | 9.4B | 5.8GB | 26-30 tok/s |
| Yi 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 28-33 tok/s |
| Yi Coder 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 28-33 tok/s |
Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.
Choosing a card for AI? Compare every GPU for local AI, including setups that pool the memory of two or more cards.
RTX A1000 versions (1)
Every board version we track, cheapest first.
- PNY RTX A1000$509.99163 mm
| Version | Boost Clock | Length | Color | From | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNY RTX A1000 | — | 163 mm | — | $509.99 | |
1 board version of the RTX A1000 are listed above, starting from $509.99. Prices update daily from live retailer stock. Click any version name for its full spec sheet and all current retailer prices.
Specifications
Every RTX A1000 board version we track measures 163 mm long.
Performance
- Shader cores
- 2,304
- SM count
- 18
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 72
- RT cores
- 18 · 2nd gen
- Tensor / AI cores
- 72 · 3rd gen
Memory
- VRAM
- 8GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 12 Gbps
GPU die
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Process node
- Samsung 8N
- Foundry
- Samsung
- Generation
- RTX A-series
Power
- TDP
- 50W
Display & outputs
- Outputs
- 4 Mini DisplayPort 1.4a
- PCIe interface
- PCIe 4.0 ×16
APIs & software
- CUDA
- Compute 8.6
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Not supported | Not supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Not supported | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Not supported |
Features
- Upscaling
- DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction
- Also runs
- FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation, XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
Physical
- Reference length
- 163 mm
- Slot width
- 1 slots
2,304 shader cores feed a 128-bit memory interface delivering 192 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 18 RT cores handle real-time ray tracing; 72 tensor cores accelerate AI workloads and DLSS Super Resolution. Compare the RTX A1000 against the full GPU lineup on the full graphics card rankings.
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