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NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB
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NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — Benchmarks & Specs

16 GB VRAM140W TDP$1,000 MSRP2021

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).

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.

ModelQuantFits in 16 GB?Cited speed on this card
Llama 3.1 8B 4.9 GB fileQ4_K_MFits~11.1 GB left for context66 tok/smedian of 4 cited runs, per Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks, GPU Battle, LocalScore (Mozilla Builders)
Qwen3 14B 9 GB fileQ4_K_MFits~7 GB left for contextNo public measurement on file
gpt-oss-20b 21B-A3.6B · 12.1 GB fileMXFP4Fits~3.9 GB left for contextNo public measurement on file
Qwen3 30B-A3B 18.6 GB fileQ4_K_MDoesn't fit2.6 GB over; runs only with CPU offload— (does not load into VRAM)
Qwen3 32B 19.8 GB fileQ4_K_MDoesn't fit3.8 GB over; runs only with CPU offload— (does not load into VRAM)
Gemma 3 27B 28.7 GB fileQ8_0Doesn't fit12.7 GB over; runs only with CPU offload— (does not load into VRAM)
Llama 3.3 70B 42.5 GB fileQ4_K_MDoesn'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.

Gaming frame rates for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB by game, resolution, and quality preset. Rows from aggregator sites are estimates, not measured runs, dated by when SpecPicks fetched them. “1% low” is the frame-time floor that determines perceived smoothness. Each row links to its original review or benchmark database.
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.

Local LLM inference throughput on the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB, in generated tokens per second for a single request (one user's generation speed). Higher is better; each row links to the community report or benchmark database it came from.
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.

Synthetic benchmark scores for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — higher is better. Each row links to the public database the number was taken from. A benchmark listed more than once is separate published results, shown as published rather than averaged.
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

Products Featuring the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB

Systems with the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB

Laptops and desktops that ship with the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — whole systems, listed separately from the part itself.

Full Specifications

TDP140 W
VRAM16 GB
CUDA cores6144
Memory typeGDDR6

NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB best used for?
NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB is a 16 GB VRAM Ampere Pro-family workstation graphics card. Professional 3D modeling, CAD, rendering and simulation on certified drivers are the headline use cases; the benchmark tables on this page place it within its generation.
When was the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB released, and what was its launch MSRP?
NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB launched in 2021 at a $1,000 MSRP. Street prices drift from launch pricing over a product's life, so check the current listing before buying.
Where do the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB benchmark numbers come from?
Each benchmark row on this page names its source (public benchmark databases such as TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench and Cinebench, and community reports such as r/LocalLLaMA threads) and links to it, so every number can be checked against the original.
Can the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB run local LLMs?
Yes — AI inference results for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB are on file; the AI Inference Performance section on this page lists model, quantization and tokens-per-second for each run. 16 GB VRAM fits 13-17B-parameter models at Q4.
Where can I buy the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB?
Amazon listings for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB are linked at the top of this page and in the Products Featuring the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB section. SpecPicks earns a small affiliate commission on qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to the buyer.

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