RTX A2000: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The RTX A2000 is NVIDIA's compact Ampere professional chip from 2021 — the 70 W entry that brought modern CUDA and DLSS into mainstream workstations. This record is among the most completely specified in the batch, and 11 catalog models match. 15 games are benchmarked at 1080p.

Where the RTX A2000 sits in 2026

The composite score of 64.4 ranks #66 of 341 — between the RTX 2070 Max-Q record (65.1), the RTX 1000 Ada record (64.7) above, and the GTX 1660 Ti (63.7), RTX 3070 Ti (63.6) and RX 7700S (63.2) below. Directly adjacent to the RTX 1000 Ada is a nice summary of its market position: yesterday's compact pro workhorse meeting today's, at essentially the same placement.

What the chip brings

The record is fully populated: 3,328 cores on the GA106 die, 8 nm Ampere, 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus at 288 GB/s, a 1,200 MHz boost clock, a 70 W envelope and 8.0 TFLOPS. Public entries: PassMark 13,417, Fire Strike 14,934, GeekBench Vulkan 69,556 and OpenCL 73,405. CUDA, DLSS and Resizable BAR are all supported.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240, Valorant at 200, Counter-Strike 2 at 180, Fortnite/GTA V/PUBG at 140, Forza Horizon 5 at 121, Forza Horizon 4 at 120, The Witcher 3 at 117, Battlefield 5 at 110, Far Cry 5 at 108, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 80, Cyberpunk 2077 at 70 and Metro Exodus at 60. A complete 60+ table at 1080p high from a 70 W part.

Laptops that carry it

The 11-host roster is a compact-workstation tour, 2021–2023: Dell Precision 3571 ($717), 5560 ($652), 5570 ($1,062), 7560/7670/7760/5770 ($652–$1,827), HP ZBook Power G9 ($654) and Fury 16 G9 ($1,827), Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 5 and P15v Gen 3 ($901). Entry pricing at $652 makes it the affordable door into current-ish certified graphics.

Bottom line

The RTX A2000 is the rational used-workstation buy of its generation: DLSS-capable, fully documented, a 60+ FPS table at 1080p high, and hosts from $652. Buyers comparing it against the RTX 1000 Ada one rank above will find the tables nearly interchangeable — choose on listing condition and price. The 6 GB buffer is the one workload constraint to check before committing.