NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 524.96

$ 16.99 slightly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

12174 points

224% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

96 FPS

289 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

45 FPS

141 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

206 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

35 FPS

114 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1346 points

3862 points

186% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1954.21 points

5402.96 points

176% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73300 points

168368 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

69543 points

158623 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

562 MHz

2190 MHz

289% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

2430 MHz

102% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

360 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

70 W

328% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

57.6 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

237% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

124.8 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

336% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.99 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

336% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3328

7168

115% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224

115% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 August

2023 April

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 vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the RTX A2000 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 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, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. 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 GeForce RTX 4070 over the RTX A2000.