NVIDIA
Architecture
Ampere is NVIDIA's second-generation RTX architecture, built on Samsung's 8nm process. It introduced 3rd-generation Tensor Cores with support for sparsity-accelerated INT8 operations and improved FP16 throughput over Turing.
AI Relevance
Sparsity-aware Tensor Cores can effectively double throughput for structured sparse workloads. However, the lack of FP8 support means quantized inference is less efficient than Ada Lovelace or Blackwell.
Agentic Coding
BThis model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Chat
CThis model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Coding
BThis model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
RAG
CThis model is a direct match for rag. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Reasoning
BThis model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Llama 3.3 70BQwen 2.5 72BQwen 2.5 VL 72B
Mistral Small 4 119B
Qwen3.5 35B A3BQwen 2.5 Coder 32BQwen3.5 27Bgemma 3 27b itQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructDevstral Small 2 24B InstructDevstral Small 1.1Codestral 2 25.08Qwen3.5 9BDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQwen3.5 4BQwen2.5 3B Instruct
gemma 2bQwen2.5 1.5B InstructQwen3.5 122B A10B
Command A 111B
DeepSeek R1 671BDevstral 2 123B Instruct
GLM-5
Kimi K2.5Mistral Large 3Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructDeepSeek V3 671BMixtral 8x22BQwen 3 235B A22BQwen3.5 397B A17BLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128EJust out of reach
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Upgrade paths
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