NVIDIA started RTX A2000 sales 10 August 2021 at a recommended price of $449 . This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12 GB/s are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 167 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 70 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX A2000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	138
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	43.12
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA106
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	10 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

RTX A2000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A2000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3328	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	12,000 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	124.8	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	48	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	104	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A2000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	167 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A2000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	12 GB/s	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A2000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

APIs supported by RTX A2000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A2000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX A2000 35.66

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX A2000 13752

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

RTX A2000 73399

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

RTX A2000 68543

GeekBench 5 CUDA

RTX A2000 84002

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A2000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	94
1440p	42
4K	32

Closest competitors

RTX A2000's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

Radeon RX Vega 64 104.23

GeForce RTX 2060 102.86

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 100.42

RTX A2000 100

RTX A2000 12 GB 99.89

Radeon RX 5600 XT 99.24

GeForce GTX 1070 98.18

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A2000 is Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which is slower by 4% and lower by 13 positions in our ranking.