NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Compare NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4043 points

5174 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

125 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

61 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

68 FPS

87 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

48 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1823.85 points

2703.17 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

72991 points

85961 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70140 points

82701 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

562 MHz

1620 MHz

188% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

2130 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

70 W

Identical

70 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

57.6 Gigapixels/s

102.2 Gigapixels/s

77% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

124.8 Gigatexels/s

187.4 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3328

18% slightly more shading units

2816

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

18% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

123rd of 590

99th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2024 February

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

RTX A2000 12GB vs RTX 2000 Ada Generation benchmarks

For gaming, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation graphics card is better than the RTX A2000 12GB in our tests.

In our comparison, the RTX 2000 Ada Generation 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 RTX 2000 Ada Generation also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, both the RTX A2000 12GB and the RTX 2000 Ada Generation have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX 2000 Ada Generation over the RTX A2000 12GB.