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Alquilar Nvidia RTX A6000.
Ampere
48GB VRAM
300W
From $0.31/hr
Per hour
$0.31
Per day
$7.37
Per week
$51.56
Per month
$221
Provider spread
3 providers ·
up to 72% cheaper at the low end
Cheapest · $0.31/hr on RunPod
Median $0.34/hr
Most expensive · $1.09/hr on Lambda Labs
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Workloads
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FAQ
Frequently asked.
What AI models can I run on a Nvidia RTX A6000?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 48GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia RTX A6000?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia RTX A6000 or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.
AI models
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Models that run on this GPU.
GPU-count + quantization recommendations covering fine-tuning, inference, and run-it-yourself scenarios on the Nvidia RTX A6000.
Gemma 3 27B
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
48 GB
Parameters
27B (27B active)
Context
128K tokens
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
48 GB
Parameters
11B
Context
128K tokens
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
48 GB
Parameters
33B
Context
128K tokens
Qwen 2.5 72B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
96 GB
Parameters
73B
Context
128K tokens
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
48 GB
Parameters
70B
Context
128K tokens
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
48 GB
Parameters
33B
Context
128K tokens
Llama 3.3 70B
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia RTX A6000
Total VRAM
96 GB
Parameters
70B
Context
128K tokens
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FAQ
AI models on this GPU.
What AI models can I run on a Nvidia RTX A6000?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 48GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia RTX A6000?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia RTX A6000 or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.