RTX A5000-12Q vs RTX A2000

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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 evaluation85.89no data
Power efficiency34.77no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA106GA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 August 2021 (3 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
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 cores33288192
Core clock speed562 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate124.8433.9
Floating-point processing power7.987 TFLOPS27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs4896
TMUs104256
Tensor Cores104256
Ray Tracing Cores2664

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 4.0 x16
Length167 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s768.0 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-DisplayPort 1.4a4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 August 2021 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 230 Watt

RTX A2000 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 228.6% lower power consumption.

RTX A5000-12Q, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 and RTX A5000-12Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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