RTX A2000 12 GB vs Radeon RX 5900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated142
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data88.68
Power efficiencyno data34.80
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA106
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data23 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

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 cores43523328
Core clock speedno data562 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate471.9124.8
Floating-point processing power15.1 TFLOPS7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs272104
Tensor Coresno data104
Ray Tracing Coresno data26

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
Lengthno data167 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s288.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort4x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 70 Watt

RX 5900 XT has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A2000 12 GB, on the other hand, has 328.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 XT and RTX A2000 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5900 XT is a desktop card while RTX A2000 12 GB is a workstation one.


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