NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started RTX A2000 12 GB sales 23 November 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. 12 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 dual-slot 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.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 35.38% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about RTX A2000 12 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking133
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money9.32
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameGA106
Market segmentDesktop
Release date23 November 2021 (2 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$449
Current price$967 (2.2x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

RTX A2000 12 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A2000 12 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3328of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed1200 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors12,000 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)70 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate124.8of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A2000 12 GB 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length167 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A2000 12 GB: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed12 GB/sof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A2000 12 GB. 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by RTX A2000 12 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A2000 12 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 12 GB 35.38

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RTX A2000 12 GB 13713

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A2000 12 GB 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.

Relative perfomance

RTX A2000 12 GB's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A2000 12 GB is Radeon RX 5600 XT, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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