GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample vs RTX A2000 12 GB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking141not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation88.79no data
Power efficiency34.78no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA106TU104
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date23 November 2021 (3 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores33283072
Core clock speed562 MHz1515 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt215 Watt
Texture fill rate124.8328.3
Floating-point processing power7.987 TFLOPS10.51 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs104192
Tensor Cores104384
Ray Tracing Cores2648

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length167 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 215 Watt

RTX A2000 12 GB has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 207.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 12 GB and GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A2000 12 GB is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
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