NVIDIA RTX A2000 GRAPHICS LEADTEK 12GB GDDR6

Nvidia RTX A2000 Professional Graphics Leadtek 12GB GDDR6

NVIDIA RTX A2000 technology has fundamentally changed computer graphics, fusing the power of real-time ray tracing, AI, and advanced graphics and computing to drive the next wave of innovation in visual computing. The NVIDIA Ampere architecture is the second generation of NVIDIA RTX A2000—delivering new levels of power and performance to professional workflows, accelerating time to decision, time to market, and time to solution. NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB brings the power of RTX to more professionals with a powerful low-profile, dual-slot GPU design, delivering real-time ray tracing, AI-accelerated computes, and high-performance graphics to your desktop. Built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the VR-ready RTX A2000 combines 26 second-generation RT Cores, 104 third-generation Tensor Cores, and 3,328 next-generation CUDA® cores and up to 12GB of GDDR6 graphics memory with error correction code (ECC) support, another industry first in this segment. Design bigger, render faster and work better with the NVIDIA RTX A2000 │ RTX A2000 12GB. CUDA Cores The NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based CUDA cores bring up to 2.7X the single-precision floating-point (FP32) throughput compared to the previous generation, providing significant performance improvements for graphics workflows such as 3D model development and compute for workloads such as desktop simulation for computer-aided engineering (CAE). The RTX A2000 series GPUs enable two FP32 primary data paths, doubling the peak FP32 operations. 2nd Generation RT Cores Incorporating 2nd generation ray tracing engines, NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs provide incredible ray-traced rendering performance. For the first time, NVIDIA is introducing RT Cores into a low profile form factor GPU. A single RTX A2000 series board can render complex professional models with physically accurate shadows, reflections, and refractions to empower users with instant insight. Working in concert with applications leveraging APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX, Microsoft XDR, and Vulkan ray tracing, systems based on RTX A2000 series GPUs will power truly interactive design workflows to provide immediate feedback for unprecedented levels of productivity. RTX A2000 series GPUs are up to 5X faster in ray tracing compared to the previous generation. This technology also speeds up the rendering of ray-traced motion blur for faster results with greater visual accuracy. 3rd Generation Tensor Cores Purpose-built for deep learning matrix arithmetic at the heart of neural network training and inferencing functions, NVIDIA RTX A2000 series GPUs include enhanced Tensor Cores that accelerate more datatypes and include a new Fine-Grained Structured Sparsity feature that delivers up to 2X throughput for tensor matrix operations compared to the previous generation. New Tensor Cores will accelerate two new TF32 and BFloat16 precision modes. Independent floating-point and integer data paths allow more efficient execution of workloads using a mix of computation and addressing calculations. PCIe Gen 4 The NVIDIA RTX A2000 eries GPUs support PCI Express Gen 4, which provides double the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3, improving data-transfer speeds from CPU memory for data-intensive tasks like AI and data science. Higher Speed GDDR6 Memory Available with 6GB or 12GB of GDDR6 memory, the RTX A2000 series GPUs provide an ideal memory footprint to address datasets and models in latency-sensitive professional applications and at volume. Error Correcting Code (ECC) on Graphics Memory Meet strict data integrity requirements for mission-critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability for workstations. 5th Generation NVDEC Engine NVDEC is well suited for transcoding and video playback applications for real-time decoding. The following video codecs are supported for hardware-accelerated decoding: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264 (AVCHD), H.265 (HEVC), VP8, VP9, and AV1. 7th Generation NVENC Engine NVENC can take on the most demanding 4K or 8K video encoding tasks to free up the graphics engine and the CPU for other operations. The RTX A2000 series GPUs provide better encoding quality than software-based x264 encoders. Graphics Preemption Pixel-level preemption provides more granular control to better support time-sensitive tasks such as VR motion tracking. Compute Preemption Preemption at the instruction level provides finer grain control over compute tasks to prevent long-running applications from either monopolizing system resources or timing out. NVIDIA RTX IO Accelerating GPU-based lossless decompression performance by up to 100x and 20x lower CPU utilization compared to traditional storage APIs using Microsoft's new DirectStorage for Windows API. RTX IO moves data from the storage to the GPU in a more efficient, compressed form, improving I/O performance. NVIDIA® Quadro® Mosaic Technology Transparently scale the desktop and applications across up to 4 GPUs and 16 displays from a single workstation while delivering full performance and image quality. DisplayPort 1.4a

NVIDIA RTX A2000 GRAPHICS LEADTEK 12GB GDDR6 Review

NVIDIA RTX A2000 big news about this tiny GPU is it supports NVIDIA’s hardware-accelerated real-time RTX raytracing technology. And it does so in a low-profile GPU form-factor that works ideally in SFF (small-form-factor) workstations. SFF workstations are often found in architecture and engineering practices because they take up less space. Given our more dominant AEC focus at Architosh, the folks at NVIDIA provided us with this new RTX A2000 GPU so we could give it a good spin in both benchmarks and real-app testing. And that is precisely what we have done. NVIDIA RTX A2000 Details Before we jump into the results, let’s cover the basics of this Ampere generation tiny GPU. First off, the card is so tiny it almost feels cute. But don’t let this fool you. The RTX A2000 packs a very decent punch. NVIDIA’s RTX A-series lineup for the workstation market. Lower left, the double-slot RTX A2000. Upper left: RTX A6000. Upper Right: RTX A5000, and lower right, single-slot RTX A4000. Only the A2000 can fit in tiny SFF (small form factor) workstations. (Image: NVIDIA / All rights reserved.) NVIDIA RTX A2000unit comes with 6GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, and there is an optional version with 12 GB. One will find 4x Mini DisplayPort connectors on the backside (see images below). Despite being small and low-profile, the RTX A2000 is a doublewide card. It can work with a low-profile bracket or a full-height bracket like ours was sent to us. It supports PCI Express-4. The RTX A2000 brings NVIDIA’s workstation-class hardware-accelerated raytracing technology down to the entry-level workstation-class GPU range. In the previous workstation generation GPUs, RTX technology stopped at the Quadro RTX 4000, and everything under that was RT-free, meaning no raytracing cores. The RTX A2000 delivers 8 peak TeraFlops single-precision (FP32) performance, compared to its previous generation at half that value. From our recent review on AMD’s new GPU, our readers learned that our own reference NVIDIA GPUs, the Quadro P4000, has 5.2 peak TeraFlops (FP32). We will be referencing that unit in some of our benchmarks below. The NVIDIA RTX A2000 possesses ‘second-generation’ RT cores with hardware-accelerated motion blur and 2x faster raytracing. We tested the raytracing and CUDA cores using Chaos’ V-Ray-based rendering benchmark. (see charts below). In terms of cores in general here is the breakdown: Installing the RTX A2000 was straightforward. We dropped it into our 2021 year model BOXX Technologies testing workstation. The card is powered entirely through the PCI bus; the A2000 has a TDP of just 70 watts. At Architosh, we have been trying to establish a suite of “cross-platform benchmarks” and real-world app tests as much as possible. In this case, however, fewer cross-platform benchmarks were deployed. We focused a bit on proprietary CUDA and RTX technology.