NVIDIA launches $625 RTX 2000 workstation GPU
NVIDIA has released the RTX 2000, the smallest and cheapest professional workstation GPU to use its Ada Lovelace architecture.
The $625 small-form-factor 16GB card is being targeted at both design and entertainment work.
Below, we’ve rounded up its key specifications, and its relative benchmark performance in CG applications including 3ds Max, DaVinci Resolve, KeyShot, Maya and V-Ray.
The latest professional GPU based on NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace architecture
The RTX 2000 is the latest card to use NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace architecture, which features iterative improvements to all three of its key GPU core types: CUDA cores for general GPU computing, Tensor cores for AI operations, and RT cores for hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
It also supports DLSS 3, NVIDIA’s AI render upscaling and frame interpolation tech, used to improve viewport interactivity in GPU renderers like D5 Render and Chaos Vantage.
| NVIDIA Ada Generation workstation GPUs | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 6000 | RTX 5000 | RTX 4500 | RTX 4000 | RTX 4000 SFF | RTX 2000 | ||
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | |
| CUDA cores | 18,176 | 12,800 | 7,680 | 6,144 | 6,144 | 2,816 | |
| Tensor cores | 568 | 400 | 240 | 192 | 192 | 88 | |
| RT cores | 142 | 100 | 60 | 48 | 48 | 22 | |
| Compute performance FP32 (Tflops) |
91.1 Tflops | 65.3 Tflops | 39.6 Tflops | 26.7 Tflops | 19.2 Tflops | 12.0 Tflops | |
| GPU memory | 48GB GDDR6 |
32GB GDDR6 |
24GB GDDR6 |
20GB GDDR6 |
20GB GDDR6 |
16GB GDDR6 |
|
| Memory bandwidth | 960 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 280 GB/s | 224 GB/s | |
| NVLInk | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Graphics bus | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| TDP | 300 W | 250 W | 210 W | 130 W | 70 W | 70 W | |
| Display connectors | 4 x DP 1.4a | 4 x DP 1.4a | 4 x DP 1.4a | 4 x DP 1.4a | 4 x MiniDP 1.4a | 4 x MiniDP 1.4a | |
| Size (H x L) | 4.4” x 10.5” Dual slot |
4.4” x 10.5” Dual slot | 4.4” x 10.5” Dual slot | 4.4” x 9.5” Single slot | 2.7” x 6.6” Dual slot |
2.7” x 6.6” Dual slot |
|
| Launch date | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | |
| Launch price | $6,799 | $4,000 | $2,250 | $1,250 | $1,250 | $625 | |
Technical specifications
The RTX 2000 is by some way the most affordable of NVIDIA’s current range of workstation GPUs, coming in at just half the price of the other small-form-factor card, the RTX 4000 SFF.
Like the RTX 4000 SFF, it’s intended for mini-desktop systems, and has the same dimensions and connectivity – although, interestingly, uses a PCIe 4.0 x8 graphics bus, rather than x16.
Core counts are rather less than half those of the RTX 4000 SFF, although its FP32 compute performance is higher than those numbers would suggest, and it features a respectable 16GB of graphics memory.
Performance benchmarks
In its launch material, NVIDIA has included performance benchmarks for a range of CG apps.
They are all comparisons with the 12GB edition of the Ampere-generation RTX A2000: the previous-gen equivalent of the RTX 2000, despite a rather lower recommended price at launch.
Viewport performance in 3ds Max and Maya, as measured by the relevant sub-tests in synthetic benchmark SPECviewperf 2020, averages 1.3x that of the previous-gen card.
Video editing performance in DaVinci Resolve is also 1.3x that of the older card.
The performance boost was higher for GPU rendering, with NVIDIA citing a 1.5x speed boost over the RTX A2000 in both KeyShot and V-Ray, the latter over a range of scenes.
Prices and release dates
The RTX 4000 is available now with a MSRP of $625.
Find full specifications for the RTX 2000 on NVIDIA’s website
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