Calculate the TPS of the RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation on local AI models
Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.
Calculated for this card
679 models in our catalogue altogether
Largest model it holds
Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B
31.6B · Q3_K_M · 116 tok/s
Fastest model
Gemma 3 QAT 1B
244 tok/s · 1B
Which AI models can run on a RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation?
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More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.
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432 models match
Calculating| Quantisation | Fit | ||||||
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244
tok/s
207–293 |
Gemma 3 1B | 1B | Mar 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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244
tok/s
207–293 |
Gemma 3 QAT 1B | 1B | Apr 2025 | 1.8 GB | 33k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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244
tok/s
146–390 · low confidence |
HGRN 1B (WT 103) ≈ | 1B | Nov 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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244
tok/s
146–390 · low confidence |
LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B ≈ | 1B | Dec 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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244
tok/s
146–390 · low confidence |
OLMo-1B ≈ | 1B | Feb 2024 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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244
tok/s
146–390 · low confidence |
Pythia-1b ≈ | 1B | Apr 2023 | 1.8 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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226
tok/s
136–361 · low confidence |
OpenELM-1.1B ≈ | 1.1B | May 2024 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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222
tok/s
133–355 · low confidence |
DeciCoder-1B ≈ | 1.1B | Aug 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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222
tok/s
133–355 · low confidence |
SantaCoder ≈ | 1.1B | Jan 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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222
tok/s
133–355 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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222
tok/s
133–355 · low confidence |
TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) ≈ | 1.1B | Oct 2023 | 1.9 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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203
tok/s
122–325 · low confidence |
EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) ≈ | 1.2B | Jul 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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203
tok/s
122–325 · low confidence |
MinerU2.5 ≈ | 1.2B | Sep 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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203
tok/s
122–325 · low confidence |
Pleias 1.0 1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Dec 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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203
tok/s
122–325 · low confidence |
Pleias-RAG-1B ≈ | 1.2B | Apr 2025 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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198
tok/s
169–238 |
Llama 3.2 1B | 1.2B | Sep 2024 | 2.2 GB | 131k tokens | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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196
tok/s
117–313 · low confidence |
MiniCPM-1.2B ≈ | 1.2B | Jun 2024 | 2.0 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Jan 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
DeepSeek-VL-1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Mar 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
DigiRL ≈ | 1.3B | Jun 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
GLA Transformer 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
Janus 1.3B ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
Kosmos-2.5 ≈ | 1.3B | Aug 2024 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
Otter ≈ | 1.3B | May 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
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188
tok/s
113–300 · low confidence |
Phi-1 ≈ | 1.3B | Oct 2023 | 2.1 GB | 131k tokens ? | Q8_0 | Comfortable |
Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation full specification
Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.
Memory
The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.
- Memory size
- 16 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 2.25 GHz
The chip
Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.
- Graphics processor
- AD103
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace
- Generation
- Ada-MW(x000A)
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process size
- 5 nm
- Transistors
- 45.9 billion
- Transistor density
- 121,100 K/mm²
- Die size
- 379 mm²
- Released
- 21 March 2023
Clock speeds
How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.
- Base clock
- 930 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1.68 GHz
Processing units
What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.
- Shading units
- 9,728
- Texture mapping units
- 304
- Render output units
- 112
- Streaming multiprocessors
- 76
- Tensor cores
- 304
- Ray tracing cores
- 76
- L1 cache
- 128 KB
- L2 cache
- 64 MB
Theoretical performance
Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.
- Half precision (FP16)
- 32.7 TFLOPS
- Single precision (FP32)
- 32.7 TFLOPS
- Double precision (FP64)
- 510.7 GFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 188 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 511 GTexel/s
The board
What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.
- Power draw (TDP)
- 120 W
- Power connectors
- None
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Slot width
- IGP
Software support
Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.
- CUDA compute capability
- 8.9
- DirectX
- 12.2
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- Vulkan
- 1.4
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Shader model
- 6.8
Listings
Where to buy a RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation
No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.
What the numbers mean
Why memory is the number that matters here
Memory
16 GB
Bandwidth
576 GB/s
Largest model
Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation carries 16 GB of GDDR6. That reaches comfortably into small and mid-sized models, though the largest stay out of reach without splitting them. Driver overhead leaves roughly 14.4 GB.
Memory bandwidth reaches 576 GB/s across a bus of 256 bits. That is the number governing generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.
The figure is the bus width multiplied by a memory clock of 2.25 GHz. Both halves matter, and neither is visible in a gaming benchmark.
The biggest thing it holds is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B, 31.6B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 116 tokens per second.
The chip and how it was built
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation is built on the graphics processor AD103, using the architecture Ada Lovelace from NVIDIA, as part of the generation Ada-MW(x000A).
The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm, with a die measuring 379 mm², holding 45.9 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.
It was released in March 2023, roughly 3.3642282936868 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.
Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks
FP16
32.7 TFLOPS
FP64
510.7 GFLOPS
Tensor cores
304
On paper RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation reaches 32.7 TFLOPS at half precision, and 32.7 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.
Double-precision throughput reaches 510.7 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.
The card carries 304 tensor cores across 76 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.
Clocks run from a base of 930 MHz to a boost of 1.68 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.
Cache and processing units
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation has an L1 cache of 128 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 64 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.
There are 9,728 shading units, 304 texture mapping units, and 112 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.
Power, size and installation
Power draw
120 W
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation is rated at 120 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.
The board occupies igp. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.
It connects over PCIe 4.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.
The extremes
The largest AI models that run on a RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation
The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.
The fastest AI models on a RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation
Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.
Step by step
How to work out the tokens per second of a RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation
You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.
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Find the model in the table
The table lists 432 models the card handles. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.
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Match the context to your work
Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and against a card holding 16 GB so the setting is worth getting right.
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Set a minimum quality if you need one
By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.
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Read the speed and the range
Speeds come with error bars for a reason. The best case here is 244 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.
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Check the memory column before committing
Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 16 GB.
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Open the model to compare cards
Each model page repeats this calculation for the whole catalogue. Worth a look before deciding: it shows what else runs the same model, alongside RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation.
Answers
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation — common questions
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— how much power does it use?
Rated board power is 120 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— how much cache does it have?
The L1 cache is 128 KB, and the L2 cache is 64 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— what are its TFLOPS?
It is rated at 32.7 TFLOPS at half precision and 32.7 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— how many tensor cores does it have?
It has 304 tensor cores across 76 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— does it support CUDA?
Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 8.9. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— what bus interface does it use?
It uses PCIe 4.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— is it good for running local AI models?
Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach and its bandwidth gives usable, if unspectacular, generation speeds. In total it runs 432 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?
Offloading past the card's 16 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.
Would two RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation cards be twice as fast?
No. A second card doubles the memory to 32 GB which lets you hold models neither could hold alone, but generation does not split that way. These figures describe one card.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— which AI models can it run?
432 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— what is the largest AI model it can run?
The largest model in our catalogue that fits is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 116 tokens per second and needs about 14.4 GB of the card's memory.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— how many tokens per second does it produce?
It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 244 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— can it run 7B models?
Yes. For example it runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 36.4 tokens per second.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— can it run 13B models?
Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q6_K, using about 13.7 GB of memory and generating around 123 tokens per second.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— can it run 30B models?
Yes. For example it runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q3_K_M, using about 12.9 GB of memory and generating around 131 tokens per second.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— how much memory does it have?
This card has 16 GB of GDDR6. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 14.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— what is its memory bandwidth?
Memory bandwidth reaches 576 GB/s across a bus of 256 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— what type of memory does it use?
It uses GDDR6 clocked at 2.25 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— who makes it?
This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm.
RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation— when was it released?
It was released in March 2023.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.