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Low-profile single-slot 70W workstation card — the SFF story: full Ampere tensor support in a tiny chassis VARIANT TRAP: A2000 ships as 6GB (192-bit/168 GB/s per spec math) and 12GB (192-bit/12Gbps = 288 GB/s); LocalScore 6GB sibling benches 28.7 tok/s 8B — verify which one a listing is 288 GB/s means 8B tok/s like a GTX 1660 Super — you buy it for the size, not the speed
computed band 31.0-49.0 tok/s for 8B Q4_K_M (roofline, 288.0 GB/s VRAM); community: 35.7 tok/s Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M (https://www.localscore.ai/accelerator/514); community: 19.5 tok/s Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Q4_K_M (https://www.localscore.ai/accelerator/514); community: 28.7 (6GB sibling variant) tok/s Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M (https://www.localscore.ai/accelerator/44)
Effective decode window: 0.55–0.88 of 288 GB/s nominal → ~158–253 GB/s effective (llama.cpp decode, Q4_K_M basis; arch window, community-calibrated)
→ 14b-q4 tight 10.5 of 12 GB usable — keep context modest
→ 3b-q4 full 2.8 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context
→ 4b-q4 full 3.7 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context
→ 8b-q4 full 6.1 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context
→ 35.7 tok/s · Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M LocalScore median · source
→ 19.5 tok/s · Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Q4_K_M LocalScore median · source
→ 28.7 (6GB sibling variant) tok/s · Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M LocalScore median (A2000 6GB) · source
Nominal bandwidth: 288.0 GB/s — see the effective decode window above
→ qwen3:0.6b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 0.6B · 0.6GB · needs ~1GB (4k ctx)
→ qwen3:1.7b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1.7B · 1.4GB · needs ~1.8GB (4k ctx)
→ qwen3:4b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 4B · 2.6GB · needs ~3.2GB (4k ctx)
→ llama3.2:1b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1B · 1.3GB · needs ~1.4GB (4k ctx)
→ llama3.2:3b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 3B · 2.0GB · needs ~2.4GB (4k ctx)
→ gemma3:1b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 1B · 1.0GB · needs ~1.1GB (4k ctx)
→ phi4:mini on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) mini 3.8B · 2.5GB · needs ~3GB (4k ctx)
→ moondream:2b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 2B · 1.7GB · needs ~3.7GB (4k ctx)
→ whisper:tiny on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) tiny · 0.1GB · needs ~2.1GB (4k ctx)
→ whisper on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) base · 0.3GB · needs ~2.3GB (4k ctx)
→ whisper:small on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) small · 0.9GB · needs ~2.9GB (4k ctx)
→ whisper:medium on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) medium · 3.1GB · needs ~5.1GB (4k ctx)
→ kokoro:82m on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 82M · 0.3GB · needs ~2.3GB (4k ctx)
→ gemma3:4b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 4B · 3.3GB · needs ~3.8GB (4k ctx)
→ deepseek-r1:7b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) distill 7B · 4.7GB · needs ~4.9GB (4k ctx)
→ mistral:7b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 7B · 4.1GB · needs ~4.6GB (4k ctx)
→ llava:7b on Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) ($110) 7B · 4.7GB · needs ~6.7GB (4k ctx)
→ qwen3:8b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 8B · 5.2GB · needs ~5.8GB (4k ctx)
→ qwen2.5vl:7b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 7B · 5.6GB · needs ~5.8GB (4k ctx)
→ llama3.1:8b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 8B · 4.9GB · needs ~5.4GB (4k ctx)
→ deepseek-r1:8b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) distill 8B · 4.9GB · needs ~5.4GB (4k ctx)
→ whisper:large-v3 on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) large-v3 · 6.2GB · needs ~8.2GB (4k ctx)
→ mistral-nemo:12b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 12B · 7.1GB · needs ~7.7GB (4k ctx)
→ sdxl on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) SDXL base · 6.9GB · needs ~8.9GB (4k ctx)
→ llava:13b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 13B · 8.0GB · needs ~11.1GB (4k ctx)
→ gemma3:12b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 12B · 8.1GB · needs ~9.6GB (4k ctx)
→ qwen3:14b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 14B · 9.3GB · needs ~9.9GB (4k ctx)
→ deepseek-r1:14b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) distill 14B · 9.0GB · needs ~9.8GB (4k ctx)
→ phi4:14b on Tesla P100 (16GB, used) ($135) 14B · 9.1GB · needs ~9.9GB (4k ctx)
→ gpt-oss:20b 20B MoE — 14.2 GB vs 12 GB usable — partial CPU offload, expect large speed loss
⚠ Low-profile single-slot 70W workstation card — the SFF story: full Ampere tensor support in a tiny chassis
⚠ VARIANT TRAP: A2000 ships as 6GB (192-bit/168 GB/s per spec math) and 12GB (192-bit/12Gbps = 288 GB/s); LocalScore 6GB sibling benches 28.7 tok/s 8B — verify which one a listing is
⚠ 288 GB/s means 8B tok/s like a GTX 1660 Super — you buy it for the size, not the speed