No. THIS Is The Fastest LP GPU In The World 

Considering the price what if you use a 3080 and limit it to 75W? should be an interesting experiment

This is where I would love to see either GPU company go: better power comsumption/performance ratio, instead of just focusing in MOAR POWAH! It's freaking expensive, but the performance for the power it's pulling is just amazing.

If Nvidia ever does make a non ECC variant, for a decent price, it will sell out very quickly. Ridiculous efficiency. If only all of their cards were as good.

For what it's worth: those screws are Torx (TX), not Hex (H). Hex screws are those commonly found on IKEA furniture :)

this must have an incredibly high binned chip to get the performance it does.

That’s how CEX ships graphics cards these days, too. It seems remarkably effective, tbf

The RTX A2000 is basically an RTX 3060 clocked well within the efficiency curve, much like the 5950 non X or 5950 Pro, drooping the frequency a bit, can cut power consumption by as much as 1/2, while still offering ~70% of the performance.

Feels like they effectively made a laptop GPU that you can put into a desktop PC.

I feel like when gpu manufacturers start focusing on energy efficiency to performance, we’ll finally start seeing massive improvements in the gpu space. Currently new gpu’s seem like reskinned old cards with more power thrown at them

Considering you're likely throwing these into an optiplex, the 150-160 dollar rx6400 still seems like the move over a 500 dollar a2000. What a beast of a card tho, and the a2000 is probably gonna be the best best LP for a while!! Somewhat related, something I never see addressed on vids about 6400 vs 1650 tho is that the rx6400 can do RSR.. it's like having FSR on any game you want. Huge value proposition.

The good thing about high end "enterprise/workstation" cards by Nvidia is they are INSANELY power efficient

OK, Dawid. The A2000 is no longer on top. NVidia just released the A4000 SFF. Low profile, 70 watts, 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensor cores, 48 RT cores, DLSS 3, Lovelace GPU, and 20GB GDDR6 ECC memory on a 160-bit bus. Two NVENC encoders that can do AV1 encoding. Looks just like the A2000. Performance similar to a 3070. Only $1,250. When can we expect a review?

Been rocking these in a couple of LP builds and its honestly going to be the LP benchmark for a good while.. Lovely little cards... But get those thermal pads sorted out... 1.5mm TG Minus Pad 8's....you will thank me!

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I'm always happy to see your work. Thanks for making it.

The A2000 also has the advantage of using the full x16 PCI-E lanes.

Haha the hex screws because it’s ‘professional’ 🤣 Gotta say, for the price I was expecting a nicer metal shroud.

Ever since the last review of the rx 6400, I’ve been wondering what the manufacturers could do with a hunky little graphics card the size of the 1650 after knowing with the much more compact 6400 could do. This video very well answered the question!

It's been fun to play with. There's a company that makes a copper plate to replace the thermal pads on the memory modules and it's helped me with temps.

I really like the idea of performance to power efficiency ratio.

I have an A2000 in my laptop. Definitely an insane card for the power used

With heat waves set to regularly be devastating from here on out, GPUs like this really should become the norm. Thanks for showcasing it, Dawid.

Well this was suprisingly entertaining, thnx for the content Dawid

The trick with those cards (and basically everything from 1000 series onward) is to go into the curve editor and modify the clock/voltage curve. Simply pushing the clock up doesn't do much, as that higher clock still depends on a voltage.

This is impressive. Gonna build an in-van PC once I have enough spare cash. Was gonna use a 1650 but now might have to push the boat out and get this little thing

RT ON = 1% difference in graphics by the cost of 200% of performance...

I'm super impressed with the efficiency. This would be a great card for a tiny portable LAN PC.

I have been looking for this all day. Thank you very much.

I'm kind of surprised, because Nvidia seemed to only release cards that are very power hungry to get good performance, but there is actually a card that doesn't do that... too bad it's so damn expensive though XD

Is it possible to limit a 3080 to 75 watts? Comparing price points this is right up there with a 3080. Kinda curious how a 3080 would play out with a 75w power limit

I used one of these on my sons workstation mini. He didn't have a means of adding a supplemental power cord, so this type was required. with a modern I5 and 16gb ram, it's a beast for it's size

What a breath of fresh air in making this video. Immediately after watching I bought a 2nd and 6gb model for $528 CAD. I’d given up on nVidia making anything low profile in the Ampere series due to too much leftover Sicilian. But it’s great to see things lived on in the Quadro arena. Good on you Dawid!

Thank you for covering pro gpus in gaming! These guys are little awesome gems and are pretty cheap sometimes second hand when you need a backup GPU or something to game on for the time being as GPU prices cost soar etc.

If you ever have a chance, I would live to see side by side comparisons with the 6gb and 12gb versions of this card. As a, "is the extra money for 12gb worth it," kind of vid. I've looked everywhere, and never found anything. And I've been eyeing this card for a while now, hoping to get one soon ish. (Mostly for the power efficiency and Low profile side of things.

Was literally thinking about seeing a video from you....Thank You!

In the 2020 shortage, around my third world area these kind of GPUs were actually in the same price range of consumer ones. I got my RTX A4000 for my workstation in early 2021 which was cheaper than a 3070 (non Ti). The card was thin, elegant, have been working well even in my poor ventilated case.

At least from my personal experience with a desktop and laptop 3070, you can brute force those cards into super low power draw with super aggressive undervolting but still maintain very high performance. I feel like that's all this card is. A high end ampere gpu that nvidia actually took the time to tune properly 😅

The A2000 is what gaming cards should aspire to with power/performance. Price on the other hand.. well.

Hey, Great Videos! I just wanted to say if you want to do other comparison between gpu/etc, pls put some 3d render in it too, not that many people make this kind of video but it will be interesting how fast it will be when rendering for some of us :).

A friend got one of these pro cards for their photo editing hobby. They didn't have the case space or power and bit the price bullet. Thought he was crazy, but they really are a marvel in terms of size and efficiency! Good stuff if you can afford it.

I have a sff pc with a lp 1650 in it and I would love to have one of these in it. I am hoping to find one for about $500 at some point, but we will see. Maybe if they release a newer version of something like this from the tech of the 40 series, maybe these will either drop or I can get lucky with one of those.

I feel like we're coming to a point in power draw that's going to require manufacturers to focus on efficiency instead of only performance. I like my frames to be as numerous as anyone else, but cards are starting to draw more power than entire systems have drawn for the last several years.

This is the same way they send analog encoders to us at my job, nothing has arrived broken since ive worked there, awesome review

Dawid, the best I've noticed RT in CP is looking at the water, especially in the city. Look in any direction with it off and you will notice the reflections cut n and out in pre-baked lighting. Turn RT on and look at the same spot and, oh, how sexy the reflection looks slightly better and doesn't clip on/off. RT will be worth the cost when the native render frame hit is less than 20%.

Please do another video with it actually in a working LP system. Close up the case and use it as if it were actually in somebody's home. See how hot it gets OC'd in those conditions. I love your videos.

That's creepy... I was JUST talking about this the early this week... It's slowly becoming affordable.

I like the fact that you open things before even testing them :D

This cooler is so clean and love that it’s dual slot. Wish the founders were like this honestly.

This would be great in a small form factor build for a living room.

Given that electricity prices in UK are set to to be about x4 the price they were at the start of the year in October, when you consider a 3060 or 3080 will be using x5+ the amount of electricity the price premium doesn't seems so bad. That is more so if you are a hardcore gamer playing 25+ hours a week.

Love your videos man... best relaxation after a day at work. 😌

I keep coming back to those basics videos because I STILL don't know how to properly use the software. I'm gonna cry

There is a 6gb version of the RTXA2000 that costs about $500, considering the 1650 only has 4gb this is probably a better value option. The 1650 low profile is going for around $200 right now. As my PC is only 4th gen i7 there probably is little point going from the 1650 but it was interesting to see how well this card performs.

No wonder it's priced at $750. It has excellent performance for it's power draw, that even an RTX 3090 Ti would struggle to keep up with this little beast, when power is limited to 75W.

Can't wait for there to be a part 3

I have one of these in a 9th Gen Intel NUC extreme at work. It makes a decent little compute box that's pretty portable.

Something tells me that they're a highly binned GPUs and Nvidia will not be selling those to regulars for cheap.

I think a lot of miners really liked this card for its incredible power efficiency which may be part of why its so expensive right now.

I'm surprised at how well it performed considering the size!

Love the videos keep them coming D

So I just picked one of these graphics cards up at a pre-owned shop. Inside a whole computer and I managed to talk them down to just shy of $100. Computer was a i5 2400 but somehow someone put a RTX a2000 inside, along with a nice 8tb drive that wasn't partitioned properly so it only registered 500gig. The case was and fans were also some ANTEC ones. Sold everything beside the harddrive and RTX and got more than $100. First time in my life I scored such a deal.

I love these little Quadros, considered getting an RTX A4000 as an upgrade for my GTX 980 Superclocked when it dies...

Ive been waiting for Dawid to upload😩

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For that money, you're basically saving up power bills for an entire years worth seeing how power hungry GPUs of today are. I do wish it's slightly cheaper, but it's a workstation card anyways so reasonably given the price. Interestingly enough, you're better of buying an RTX 3060 with much better performance but twice the power draw in a more lower price point. It's a compromise indeed.

Dawid has reached peak masculinity with this awsome beard!

I daily drive the A2000 6GB version and love it (we are getting so close to 100W gaming currently around 140-165W under load). Plays everything I love to play at 1440P High settings paired with a i5 12500 in a tiny precision Dell 3460. I custom liquid cooled both a 750ti (non 6 pin), and i3 (35w)T version rig back in the mid 201Xs and then placed it in the lian li yacht case. That was the last time I experienced quiet gaming so close to 100 watts (115-125w range) and that was passable versus my now enjoyable performance per period normal gaming.

It would have been interesting to see rendering times in Premiere Pro with the card compared to the other low-budget, low profile cards. Actually while you are at it, how does it compare rendering compared to similarly priced regular graphics cards?

Honestly, if Nvidia had released a "proper" 3050 instead of the garbage that they did release, we would have had the consumer version of the A2000. We honestly would have rather had THIS than the 3050 OR the 3060 OR that total abomination 1630. Now I have to wait 12months until I can have a fight with someones granny in the street over a $300 A2000.

The power efficiency alone makes me want PCIE 5.0 to focus on additional power delivery rather than greater speeds/bandwidth we still don’t fully utilize. They can even call it PCIE 4.20 instead of 5. Would I be correct in guessing the reason efficiencies are higher going through the PCIE lanes is because the incoming power has been balanced and cleaned up by its trip through the mobo, whereas power coming directly from the PSU to the GPU needs to be balanced and regulated before allowing the card to use that power?

Quick note, those are Torx screws, hex screws are the Allen key ones.

Really love the RTX A2000. Been using it for a while. But the noise from the fan bothers me so much.

Wow, this feels quite nice for a LP RTX GPU

This thing is power efficient not because it's specially binned, but because it's a wide and slow configuration. The clock speeds here are far slower than the regular 30-series clock speeds, so it needs much less voltage as a result. It compensates for this by having many SMs, so it still delivers a lot of performance in its 70W envelope. The clock speed behavior you saw when overclocking is specifically due to this 70W limit. The PCIe slot is only rated for 75W, but this thing seems to play it safe by only pulling 70W (the other 5 may be lost in the VRMs). You can try to eke out more performance by undervolting the card instead, which is how you OC when faced with a strict power limit.

I like how responsive nvidia is to product requests.

Great video. Maybe you can built the best pc between pure power (FPS for games and Benchmark for professional programs) and power consumption?

Considering it is a production card. Quatros run games quite well. You have to love that ECC memory it comes with.

Dawid you took two weeks off and my youtube world was paused. Thank you for coming back with videos. You and Anna deserve vacations but I need my fix.

Thank you for the informative and educational video!

a2000 6gb are now used for under $300. I blame ETH mining ending, now there's a flood of excess cards - some weren't even delivered before the end of POW ETH mining, but went right to surplus upon delivery.

Makes me want to get a super small SFF case and stick one of these inside.

I wish RU-vidrs would write the full name and model of the card atleast on the description. This card was PNY RTX A2000 12GB

When I see there is a new Dawid video I get overly excited .

*@Dewid Does Tech Stuff* in germany the 6GB-version is available from 550 to 630 EUR as of july 27th so the proposition you make at the end of the video is probably not as far fetched as you might think...

Those cards are usually used in rackmount servers, that's why they need to be so thin and low-profile (and why the price doesn't make sense for the performances), you would usually put multiple cards like that on a single station (I was looking for making a CAD server at work and we would've used 2 or 3 Quadro RTX 4000 in it). Speaking from experience, using servers cards in normal cases isn't a good idea, rackmount cases have a stupid amount of airflow because the cards are being essentially passively cooled, the small fan is just to push a little more heat from the die, it's not supposed to be cooling the entire GPU. It works fine now, but the performances usually take a big hit after 45-60 minutes and internal heat could "break" the thermal paste a lot quicker than normal (I've heard about cards using thermal glue that would become so hot that the heatsink simply fell off because the glue melted).

What happens if you pick up the beefiest GPU you can get your hands on, then cap it down to

this would be a great card for a badass tiny form factor PC. imagine a thin client sized PC with this little powerhouse GPU!

This is an awesome video. I like your style. Your videos are very informative, technically, and entertaining at the same time. Your style is kind of Carl-Sagan-esque, but with added humour, which is great (Austin Powers comes to mind too). Regarding this video, with the game settings you've decided to use, I was wondering if it might make sense to use the NVIDIA Quadro RTX A2000 6GB instead of the 12GB version, which is quite a bit cheaper. In the UK, average price on ebay for a used one is about 250 pounds, which I think is reasonable. From your benchmark results, all of the games use less than 6GB and most of them are only using about 4.5GB or less, so the 6GB version should be fine. I would seriously consider buying the 6GB version for a small ITX PC build. In fact I am considering it. I've seen this card mentioned before, but I didn't know the performance was this good with such a low power. It would be perfect for a really small form factor PC, with a really small case like 5 litres volume or so. I think that would work great!

I'm glad Linode is back.

How about an idea for the follow up - make a better cooling? Oh,and how about the noise???

Thee Classic teardown before the REAL test

Curious to see how this card works in an Optiplex

Cool video! Something I'm curious about is Single-Slot GPUs. Cards that only take up a single slot ahah

The packaging was better on the cables than the actual card. Noice

This was so interesting Dawid.

Very interesting review. Why don't you try more Quadro cards? It would be interesting to see if even the cheaper sisters have good performance. Even if they are meant to be used in workstation cases

I want to see what happens if you power that thing properly, can it be shunt modded and a cable added?

I wonder if an RTX 3060 6GB mining graphics card (a desktop graphics card with an RTX 3060 Mobile GPU and usually only 1 video output port) would be a viable cheap alternative? I'm not sure whether there are any problems with installing drivers.

The wee A2000 is an amazing piece of kit... if it wasn't for the rubbish fan and thermal pads, strongly recommend to replace the memory thermal pads with an aftermarket product, reduces temps by 5c easily.

the fact that there are components missing from the pcb tells me there is an even more powerful version of this card available somewhere.