RTX A2000 vs GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated139
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data85.99
Power efficiencyno data34.81
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104GA106
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data10 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 $449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores61443328
Core clock speedno data562 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors18,000 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate325.4124.8
Floating-point processing power20.83 TFLOPS7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs192104
Tensor Coresno data104
Ray Tracing Coresno data26

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length242 mm167 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s288.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 70 Watt

RTX 3070 SUPER has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX A2000, on the other hand, has 257.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER and RTX A2000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER is a desktop card while RTX A2000 is a workstation one.


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