NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — Benchmarks & Specs
Short answer: the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB generates a median 52.7 tokens/sec on 7-9B dense models at 4-bit (Q4) under ollama, across 10 cited runs from Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks, DatabaseMart and LLMRun. Its 16 GB of VRAM holds up to gpt-oss-20b at MXFP4 with an ~8K context, by the Will-It-Run matrix's sizing (14 of 27 models fit). At the $1,009.97 Amazon price checked 15 h ago (prices change), that is 52.2 tok/s per $1,000, the SpecPicks Value Index. That ranks #21 of 25 GPUs on tok/s per $1,000 in the SpecPicks value table (table built 2026-11-08 02:06 UTC).
- Median speed 52.7 tok/s 10 cited runs, 7-9B at Q4, ollama
- Fits in 16 GB up to gpt-oss-20b at MXFP4 → at ~8K context; 14 of 27 models in the Will-It-Run matrix
- Lowest linked price $1,009.97 Amazon, checked ; prices change
- Value Index 52.2 tok/s per $1,000 median speed ÷ the price above
Who should buy this instead: the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB's 16 GB puts it in the 16 GB tier of the local-LLM GPU picks by VRAM (one card per tier, each with cited tok/s). If the models you run fit in 12 GB, compare the 12 GB pick. If they need more than 16 GB, start at the 24 GB pick.
NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB: verdict by use case
- For everyday local models (7-9B dense): a median 52.7 tok/s at 4-bit (Q4) under ollama, across 10 cited runs (Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks, DatabaseMart).
- For the largest model in 16 GB: gpt-oss-20b at MXFP4 with an ~8K context; 14 of the 27 models in the Will-It-Run matrix fit. By the same sizing, 65-73B models at Q4 do not fit, so 70B-class work needs a card with more VRAM or CPU offload.
- For gaming: 123 fps average in Death Stranding at 1440p Maximum, per TechSpot.
- For speed per dollar: 52.2 tok/s per $1,000 on 7-9B models, at the $1,009.97 Amazon price checked (price may vary).
Each verdict quotes a figure from a linked source or a row in the tables below. Where no cited figure exists for a use case, there is no verdict line for it.
Bottom line: how fast is the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB?
SpecPicks median: 52.7 tokens/sec across 10 cited single-user runs of 7-9B dense models at 4-bit (Q4) under ollama (range 39.0–76.0 tok/s), from Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks (2 runs), DatabaseMart (7 runs), LLMRun. At the $1,009.97 Amazon price of the cheapest linked listing (checked ; prices change), that is a SpecPicks Value Index of 52.2 tok/s per $1,000. At 1440p Maximum, the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB averages 123 fps in Death Stranding, per TechSpot. For local LLM inference it generates 22.9 tokens/sec running deepseek-coder:16b at q4_K_M under ollama, per DatabaseMart. In PassMark G3D Mark it scores 19,363–19,367 points, across two PassMark results (PassMark GPU benchmark listing: 19,367 points, PassMark GPU benchmark listing: 19,363 points). It has 16 GB of VRAM, and the deepseek-coder:16b run above (16B parameters) is the largest model on file at 4-bit quantization on this card. Larger models have no sourced run on file.
Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from; the SpecPicks median is computed here from the runs it names, each a row in the AI table, and the per-$1,000 figure divides it by the dated listing price. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.
Amazon listing: $1,009.97, checked (price may vary)
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-11-07. Price and availability subject to change.
Check what fits in 16 GB: by file size at each listed quantization, 14 of the 27 open-weight model files in the SpecPicks Will-It-Run matrix load entirely into the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB's 16 GB while keeping at least 1.5 GB reserved for an ~8K context; the largest that fits, gpt-oss-20b (a 12.1 GB MXFP4 file per its Hugging Face listing), leaves roughly 3.9 GB free. Check a model in the Will-It-Run matrix →
What fits in the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB's 16 GB, and what doesn't
3 of these 7 model files load whole into 16 GB with room for an ~8K context. A file fits when the card keeps at least 1.5 GB free after the weights; file sizes are the GGUF downloads on Hugging Face. Speeds are this card's single-user generation speed from cited community runs at the Q4-class file listed; a row with no cited run says so rather than estimating one.
| Model | Quant | Fits in 16 GB? | Cited speed on this card |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B 4.9 GB file | Q4_K_M | Fits~11.1 GB left for context | 66 tok/smedian of 4 cited runs, per Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks, GPU Battle, LocalScore (Mozilla Builders) |
| Qwen3 14B 9 GB file | Q4_K_M | Fits~7 GB left for context | No public measurement on file |
| gpt-oss-20b 21B-A3.6B · 12.1 GB file | MXFP4 | Fits~3.9 GB left for context | No public measurement on file |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B 18.6 GB file | Q4_K_M | Doesn't fit2.6 GB over; runs only with CPU offload | — (does not load into VRAM) |
| Qwen3 32B 19.8 GB file | Q4_K_M | Doesn't fit3.8 GB over; runs only with CPU offload | — (does not load into VRAM) |
| Gemma 3 27B 28.7 GB file | Q8_0 | Doesn't fit12.7 GB over; runs only with CPU offload | — (does not load into VRAM) |
| Llama 3.3 70B 42.5 GB file | Q4_K_M | Doesn't fit26.5 GB over; runs only with CPU offload | — (does not load into VRAM) |
The NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB is a graphics card from the Ampere Pro family released in 2021 from NVIDIA. Key on-paper specs include 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 140W TDP. It launched with a $1,000 MSRP, though street prices typically diverge meaningfully from launch pricing — see the linked product cards below for current listings. Data on this page draws on 12 linked listings, 11 synthetic benchmark results (top 10 shown), 27 community AI inference reports (top 18 shown), 10 game frame-rate results, compiled from DatabaseMart, TechSpot, CpuTronic, Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks, GPU Battle, GPU-Monkey, LLMRun, PassMark, 3DMark, HWBOT, knightli.com, llama.cpp GitHub, LocalScore, TopCPU.net; each table row links to its source. Read this page when shopping the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, synthetic benchmark scores, or local LLM inference).
Gaming Performance (reported FPS)
Average and 1% low frame rates by game, resolution, and quality preset. Bars are scaled against the fastest result on this page.
| Game | Resolution | Settings | Relative | Avg FPS | 1% low | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege | 1440p | Ultra | 222 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Rainbow Six Siege | 1440p | Ultra | 222 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1080p | Highest | 147 fps | — | CpuTronic 2026-06-09 | |
| Death Stranding | 1440p | Ultra | 123 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Death Stranding | 1440p | Maximum | 123 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1440p | Highest | 103 fps | — | CpuTronic 2026-06-09 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1440p | Ultra | 52 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1440p | High | 52 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10-15 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 4K | Highest | 49 fps | — | CpuTronic 2026-06-09 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4K | Ultra | 28 fps | — | TechSpot 2021-10 |
AI Inference Performance
Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.
| Model | Quantization | Relative | Tokens/sec | VRAM used | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen/Qwen3-4B | BF16 vllm | 163.0 tok/s | — | Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks 2026-10-08 | |
| qwen3:4b | q4_K_M other | 116.2 tok/s | 2.9 GB | GPU Battle 2026-07-11 | |
| llama2:7b | q4_0 llama.cpp | 85.2 tok/s | — | llama.cpp GitHub Discussion 2024-01 | |
| llama2:7b | q4_0 llama.cpp | 83.8 tok/s | — | knightli.com 2026-04-23 | |
| llama2:7b | Q4_0 llama.cpp | 83.8 tok/s | — | llama.cpp GitHub 2025-01 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 76.0 tok/s | — | Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks 2026-10-08 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M other | 75.5 tok/s | 4.8 GB | GPU Battle 2026-07-11 | |
| qwen3:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 67.0 tok/s | — | Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks 2026-10-08 | |
| llama2:7b | q4_K_M ollama | 65.1 tok/s | 3.8 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 | |
| mistral:7b | q4_K_M ollama | 64.2 tok/s | 4.1 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M llama.cpp | 56.5 tok/s | 16.0 GB | LocalScore (Mozilla Builders) retrieved 2026-09-08 | |
| qwen3:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 52.8 tok/s | 5.5 GB | LLMRun 2025-06 | |
| qwen2.5:7b | Q4_K_M ollama | 52.7 tok/s | 4.7 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-02 | |
| deepseek-r1:7b | q4_K_M ollama | 52.6 tok/s | 4.7 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 | |
| deepseek-r1:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 51.6 tok/s | 4.9 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 | |
| llama3.1:8b | q4_K_M ollama | 51.4 tok/s | 4.9 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 | |
| gemma2:9b | Q4_K_M ollama | 39.0 tok/s | 5.4 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-02 | |
| deepseek-coder:16b | q4_K_M ollama | 22.9 tok/s | 8.9 GB | DatabaseMart 2025-01 |
Synthetic Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bars are scaled within each benchmark family (multi-thread, single-thread, etc.) so you can compare like-with-like at a glance.
| Benchmark | Relative | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| PassMark G3D Mark | 19,367 points | PassMark Software retrieved 2026-04-29 | |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 19,363 points | PassMark retrieved 2026-06-09 | |
| PassMark GPU Mark | 19,344 points | PassMark Software retrieved 2026-09-08 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 12,376 points | 3DMark 2022-09 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 11,079 points | TopCPU.net retrieved 2026-04-29 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy (graphics) | 10,968 points | GPU-Monkey 2026-10-08 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 10,952 points | CpuTronic retrieved 2026-07-09 | |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 7,380 points | HWBOT 2021-07-25 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (graphics) | 5,299 points | GPU-Monkey 2026-10-08 | |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 2,617 points | CpuTronic retrieved 2026-07-09Same result reported by UL Benchmarks |
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Full Specifications
| TDP | 140 W |
|---|---|
| VRAM | 16 GB |
| CUDA cores | 6144 |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
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