RTX 2000 Ada Generation – not to be confused with RTX A2000

Next time you go shopping for a workstation GPU, don’t make the mistake of confusing the RTX 2000 with the RTX A2000. The new GPU is part of the ‘Ada Generation’, so obviously the ‘ONE” to ONE2000 means “ONEda”, right? Wrong! This is ONEtake of course So ONEda is the one without the “ONEBefore 2000 – though ONEda also starts with a ONE. So the RTX 2000 is ONEda and RTX ONE2000 is not. I got it?

Name aside, the new card offers 16GB of VRAM – 4GB more than the previous generation RTX A2000 (12GB), as well as Ada Lovelace’s architectural improvements over Ampere, including (via NVIDIA):

• Third generation RT cores: Up to 1.7x faster ray tracing performance for high-fidelity photorealistic performance.
• Fourth generation Tensor cores: Up to 1.8x AI performance over previous generation, with built-in sparsity and FP8 precision for higher inference performance for AI-accelerated tools and applications.
• CUDA colors: Up to 1.5x the performance of the previous generation FP32 for significant performance improvements in graphics and computing workloads.
• Power output: Up to 2x performance boost in professional graphics, rendering, artificial intelligence and computing workloads, all with the same 70W of power as the previous generation.
• Immersive workflows: Up to 3x performance for VR workflows compared to the previous generation.
• 16 GB of GPU memory: An expanded canvas allows users to tackle larger projects, along with support for error-correcting code memory for greater computational accuracy and reliability for mission-critical applications.
• DLSS 3: Delivers a breakthrough in AI graphics, significantly boosting performance by creating additional high-quality frames.
• AV1 encoder: The eighth-generation NVIDIA codec, also known as NVENC, with AV1 support is 40% more efficient than H.264, giving new possibilities for broadcasters, streamers and video callers.