NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB and NVIDIA RTX A5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1470 MHz vs 1170 MHz
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 184 Watt vs 230 Watt
Launch date 7 Dec 2021 vs 12 Apr 2021
Core clock speed 1470 MHz vs 1170 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 184 Watt vs 230 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5000

  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1650 MHz
  • Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 433.9 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 8192 vs 2176
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1036 vs 835
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 22861 vs 15903
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1695 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Texture fill rate 433.9 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 8192 vs 2176
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1036 vs 835
PassMark - G3D Mark 22861 vs 15903

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
835
1036
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15903
22861
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB NVIDIA RTX A5000
PassMark - G2D Mark 835 1036
PassMark - G3D Mark 15903 22861
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8017
Geekbench - OpenCL 154456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 581.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 6836.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 54.372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 191.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2038.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB NVIDIA RTX A5000

Essentials

Architecture Turing Ampere
Code name TU106 GA102
Launch date 7 Dec 2021 12 Apr 2021
Place in performance rating 72 71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 1470 MHz 1170 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 224.4 GFLOPS (1:32) 867.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.36 TFLOPS (2:1) 27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.181 TFLOPS 27.77 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2176 8192
Pixel fill rate 79.20 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 224.4 GTexel/s 433.9 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 184 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 10800 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 229 mm, 9 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 768 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6