NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A2000 and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

NVIDIA RTX A2000

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A2000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 975 vs 861

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 Aug 2021 vs 13 August 2018
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	975 vs 861

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Around 79% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 562 MHz
9.3x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19305 vs 13627
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 147323 vs 73371

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1005 MHz vs 562 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	19305 vs 13627
Geekbench - OpenCL	147323 vs 73371

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A2000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

975

861

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13627

19305

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

73371

147323

Name	NVIDIA RTX A2000	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
PassMark - G2D Mark	975	861
PassMark - G3D Mark	13627	19305
Geekbench - OpenCL	73371	147323
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5989	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		401.574
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		6432.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		43.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		215.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2101.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3290

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A2000	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Code name	GA106	TU102
Launch date	10 Aug 2021	13 August 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$9,999
Place in performance rating	102	101
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3328
Pixel fill rate	57.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	13250 million	18,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	167 mm (6.6 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Width	69 mm (2.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6