NVIDIA RTX A2000

[W1zzard]

NVIDIA's RTX A2000 is the fastest graphics card that fits into a low-profile form factor. It's fast enough for 1080p Full HD Gaming at maximum details and achieves that with 75 W slot power only, which makes it even more energy-efficient than AMD's 6 and 7 nanometer RDNA2 graphics cards.

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[DeeJay1001]

And you can't buy them anywhere because it's the one of the best mining cards on the market right now

 

[lexluthermiester]

And you can't buy them anywhere because it's the one of the best mining cards on the market right now

Nonsense. You can't buy them anywhere because they are not consumer cards. They are meant for small form-factor workstations and enterprise customers.

Fan speed can't be reduced below 30%

I do not count this as a downside. To me that is a positive feature. In cramped spaces it will prevent overheating..

Now NVidia needs to make a 3050 low-profile, slot powered GPU and NOT gimp on specs.

 

[DeeJay1001]

Nonsense. You can't buy them anywhere because they are not consumer cards. They are meant for small form-factor workstations and enterprise customers.

Do a search on youtube for this card, All the top reviews are either using this card for mining or gaming benchmarks. When these cards were released, I saw countless posts on a mining group of people buying stacks of these. ANYONE can buy these cards from CDW, shopBLT, Lenovo, or HP. I have a business rep with Lenovo for bulk orders and inquired about these cards before they were even released, I was unable to order more than 2 without a manual review and serial numbers from compatible machine due to lenovo placing these cards on a special reserve list due to the demand from large mining operations. I can guarantee more of these cards are being used for mining than any professional use.

 

[Dorek]

Seen 8 of these in stock in some finnish pc web shop, though they are PNY made.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Do a search on youtube for this card, All the top reviews are either using this card for mining or gaming benchmarks. When these cards were released, I saw countless posts on a mining group of people buying stacks of these. ANYONE can buy these cards from CDW, shopBLT, Lenovo, or HP. I have a business rep with Lenovo for bulk orders and inquired about these cards before they were even released, I was unable to order more than 2 without a manual review and serial numbers from compatible machine due to lenovo placing these cards on a special reserve list due to the demand from large mining operations. I can guarantee more of these cards are being used for mining than any professional use.

Context is important and you missed it. The AXXXX series card from NVidia are NOT consumer cards. Your statement shows this really well. The vast majority of buyers are NOT going to have accounts at resale distributors, nor are they going to buy direct from OEMs.

 

[DeeJay1001]

Context is important and you missed it. The AXXXX series card from NVidia are NOT consumer cards. Your statement shows this really well. The vast majority of buyers are NOT going to have accounts at resale distributors, nor are they going to by direct from OEMs.

I think you missed it. Literally anyone can make an account on any of those sites and buy a single card. Sure, they aren't the go-to retailers for the average consumer, but they aren't restricted either.

 

[Ruru]

Looks amazing when thinking about its efficiency.

 

[W1zzard]

And you can't buy them anywhere because it's the one of the best mining cards on the market right now

I bought my card on Amazon Germany, with my personal account (not a company acc), there seems to be plenty of supply at other stores, too

though they are PNY made.

Exact same thing as the NVIDIA card

 

[Dorek]

I bought my card on Amazon Germany, with my personal account (not a company acc), there seems to be plenty of supply at other stores, too


Exact same thing as the NVIDIA card

Guessing these are all to spec regardless of makers, but very cool idea for some mini pc gaming.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think you missed it.

No, I didn't. I'm a retailer and my wholesale supplier can supply these cards, but only in 5 packs.

Literally anyone can make an account on any of those sites and buy a single card.

Not sure where in the world you are, but things stateside seem to work a little differently. Wholesale distributors generally don't sell to the public. You need proof of business license, proof of a tax ID(because wholesale is sans tax) and you generally have to buy in bulk.

These cards might be out there, I'm not arguing against that. What I'm saying is that they are NOT generally available to the public. THAT is why few can buy them. Example?...

I bought my card on Amazon Germany

...I just looked, not one example on Amazon.com or Ebay and only a few examples on Newegg(not sold by Newegg themselves). Things seem to work differently in Deutschland.

Sure, they aren't the go-to retailers for the average consumer

Thank you for conceding the point.

 

[Selaya]

wow, you madman. you really did it. nice.
that being said

Installation requires three slots in your system.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-rtx-a2000/2.html
that can't be right

 

[londiste]

In gaming, power consumption is extremely low. Since the card is designed to run with PCIe slot power only, which can supply up to 75 W, NVIDIA set a board power limit of 70 W.

Technically spec says 5.5A (66W) at 12V - which is what most graphics cards take as input. Plus 3A (9.9W) at 3.3V and combined up to 75W.

 

[damric]

@W1zzard I wonder if this card can be firmware modded like I did with that M2000 to exceed the power and clock limits. I've been folding on that one 24/7 since that experiment, and it hasn't yet caused any worry for the PCIE slot occasionally getting a 120w spike, with typical power draw around 70-80w on a cheap ASRock B450 board.

 

[W1zzard]

wow, you madman. you really did it. nice.
that being said

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-rtx-a2000/2.html
that can't be right

fixed

 

[ricoh]

The real ace up the A2000's sleeve has to be its full 192-bit GDDR6 memory bus in line with that of the RTX 3060. The RTX 3050 uses a 50% narrower 128-bit bus.

No, the RTX 3050 has a 33% narrower 128-bit bus than the A2000. But the A2000 has a 50% wider 192-bit bus than the RTX 3050.

If the RTX 3050 WOULD have a 50% narrower bus than the A2000, it would have been 96 bit.

 

[Mussels]

Page 1 fails to have the phrase "can it run crysis?"


0/10 bad review, IGN


The fact it matches a 3050 despite having 1/3 the base clock says that either this is a super efficient design, or that nvidias base/boost clocks make even less sense than they used tor
(cores ROPS, base, boost)

 

[Selaya]

could also be binning, they could've saved the best dies for this since they get to charge quadro tax here

 

[mechtech]

Interesting little card. What codecs included in the media engine? W1zz, on chart you have 562mhz for core clock speed?

It's too bad AMD didn't make the 6500xt and 6600/xt in stubby versions and low profile versions.

 

[Beertintedgoggles]

It's available at Micro Center: https://www.microcenter.com/product...00-single-fan-6gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card In fact, they have two available at the time of this post. Have to buy in person and limit of 1 per.... but that's a far cry from "Nonsense. You can't buy them anywhere because they are not consumer cards."

 

[Selaya]

okay, suggestion time:
add 1650 (vanilla non-super) and maybe 1050ti to the charts bc this is an SFF card (and really shouldnt be bought for any other usecase) and the 1650/1050ti are its main uh competitors

 

[docnorth]

Now NVidia needs to make a 3050 low-profile, slot powered GPU and NOT gimp on specs.

Exactly, except it would be better to have both low-profile and full height options.

 

[Lew Zealand]

If Nvidia and AMD would clock their cards at reasonable speeds with reasonable voltages, all cards of this generation would have similar high efficiency. As most of my games don't need the full performance of my 6600xt, I usually run it at 2300 MHz (-350) cores and 2200MHz (+200) memory and games average around 90-95W with full GPU usage. On some benchmarks I can get it to top out at ~105W but I've haven't seen that in-game yet. FPS drop from full speed is about 10%.

That's comparable to what's seen with the A2000 here and shows that Ampere and RDNA2 can run much more efficiently if one chooses to.

 

[docnorth]

okay, suggestion time:
add 1650 (vanilla non-super) and maybe 1050ti to the charts bc this is an SFF card (and really shouldnt be bought for any other usecase) and the 1650/1050ti are its main uh competitors

Well, we can use 1650 super or rx 570 as guides and estimate the 1650 non-super performance at 55-57% compared to the a2000. Of course someone else’s calculations might differ slightly. Interesting comparison anyway.

 

[Camm]

I want one for my home server to accelerate decode and provide GPU acceleration for any VM's running. But the price is still a bit ludicrous right now for me to consider it.