NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 524.96

$ 34.34 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

116% significantly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

197 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

64 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

914% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

1954.21 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

84002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

76373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58378 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

69543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

166% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

70 W

214% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

187% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

154% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

154% significantly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

76% significantly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

76% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs RTX A2000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the RTX A2000 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the RTX A2000.