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Can the NVIDIA RTX A4000 run moondream 2B?

FULL

3.7 GB needed of 16 GB usable — headroom for context

16GB · Ampere · model file 1.7GB · 2B

~120–200 tok/s

computed roofline: 448 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 1.7GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run moondream 2B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs moondream 2B fully ($110)

rtx-a4500 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX A4000

every model the NVIDIA RTX A4000 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX A4000 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory