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The RTX A2000 club.

I'm fascinated by this card, quickly climbing the ranks of my favourite cards ever. Already done a few mods to my 6GB variant.
  • Blower fan to 4 pin PWM adapter - freeing up "up to" 7w (iirc) total board power for the GPU/Mem
  • Repasted with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
  • Re-padded memory with Thermalright Odyssey 12.8 W/mK
it runs a 24/7 stable OC of +220 core and +1000 memory (effective clock 14gbps), I can run +250 core just fine but backed it off just in case. capped/flatlined the curve at ~1790mhz/850mv, it hits those clocks at lower loads, but when properly saturated tends to run in the 1450-1550mhz range.

I will consider in the future other cooler mods, as well as possible shunt/extra 12v power cable mods too, but for now the CPU is the bottleneck in the system it's in!
 
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So far I haven't had much luck with undervolt in the 0.750-0.950V range (very low clocks in stress tests, lower scores in Timespy), but I also have yet to get a handle of what normal effective clock looks like.

Well, the card has exposed serious x16 power issues with one of my boards (and very possibly the entire board brand), and caused me a whole lot of expenditure on a low profile bracket, mDP cables and adapters, so it's something I guess lol.

Also, ECC for GDDR6. Haven't played with it yet, I'm not usually a Quadro user.
 
mine's currently at +256mhz core and +2,000 memory (or w/e afterburner calls it, slider's dragged all the way to the right, and gpu-z reports 2,000mhz effective, up from 1,500 stock), and it's passing timespy stress testes (not sure whether theres anything else i can/should run)

seems like a silicon lottery kind of thing, but from what i can see +260ish mhz is the maximum stable oc w/o something like a shuntmod

edit: i wasnt able to unlock voltage controls at all, but im also on like, the most recent gpu driver. i've heard that nv's locked some of those fun things w/ a more recent revision of theirs, is that true in this case asw?

also, i wouldn't recommend enabling ecc - it'll reduce the amount of usable vram (figures, you need to store the ecc parity bit somewhere)
 
I’ve got the A2000 8GB in my laptop. Does it count?
:p

…and the RTX A4000 16GB in my work desktop.
 

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gffermari said:
I’ve got the A2000 8GB in my laptop. Does it count?
:p

…and the RTX A4000 16GB in my work desktop.
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Seems to have much more in common with the 3050 than A2000 :D
 
Got my A2000 august last year from new. Overclock wise its 260+ for gpu and memory its 1200+ in msi afternurner.

Im considering to replace it with gigabytes new little sff rtx 4060 card when it comes to stores soon. A2000 is a nice card, but do to rtx 3050 like performance. I could use more vram and performance.
 
Selaya said:
mine's currently at +256mhz core and +2,000 memory (or w/e afterburner calls it, slider's dragged all the way to the right, and gpu-z reports 2,000mhz effective, up from 1,500 stock), and it's passing timespy stress testes (not sure whether theres anything else i can/should run)

seems like a silicon lottery kind of thing, but from what i can see +260ish mhz is the maximum stable oc w/o something like a shuntmod

edit: i wasnt able to unlock voltage controls at all
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Nice oc's +250ish seems about right for most A2000's I've seen. When you say voltage control, you want to just lower or raise a slider? I use the curve editor so you can effectively over or undervolt anyway.
Tomgang said:
Got my A2000 august last year from new. Overclock wise its 260+ for gpu and memory its 1200+ in msi afternurner.
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Noice!
Tomgang said:
Im considering to replace it with gigabytes new little sff rtx 4060 card when it comes to stores soon. A2000 is a nice card, but do to rtx 3050 like performance. I could use more vram and performance.
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I'd also consider the new Gigabyte LP 4060, but even so I kind of want more VRAM.... 6GB to 8GB isn't the increase I'd be chasing, 12GB would have been so good for this card. I actually bought mine second hand dirt cheap (7 months ago for $200 USD), but it was advertised as a 12GB which stung to get only the 6GB and there's no way to tell by visual inspection without disassembly, but I suppose at that price I'm lucky I got an A2000. The performance increase at almost double would be very welcome though from that little 4060, I wonder if they're on sale yet...
 
are you able to to undervolt this card in windows using MSI Afterburner? I tried and I believe it was not working. I was able to control the fan 30%-100%

FYI this is how it looks in linux

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Tomgang said:
Got my A2000 august last year from new. Overclock wise its 260+ for gpu and memory its 1200+ in msi afternurner.

Im considering to replace it with gigabytes new little sff rtx 4060 card when it comes to stores soon. A2000 is a nice card, but do to rtx 3050 like performance. I could use more vram and performance.
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Very interesting, no way it will fit in my chasis which is 17 cm (like all lp cards till now), but the radiator doesn't go all the way back, taking out those fans and adding some 2x7 cm ones that just barelly fit and connecting them to a molex should do the trick, thanks for the heads up.
 
wolf said:
Nice oc's +250ish seems about right for most A2000's I've seen. When you say voltage control, you want to just lower or raise a slider? I use the curve editor so you can effectively over or undervolt anyway.

Noice!

I'd also consider the new Gigabyte LP 4060, but even so I kind of want more VRAM.... 6GB to 8GB isn't the increase I'd be chasing, 12GB would have been so good for this card. I actually bought mine second hand dirt cheap (7 months ago for $200 USD), but it was advertised as a 12GB which stung to get only the 6GB and there's no way to tell by visual inspection without disassembly, but I suppose at that price I'm lucky I got an A2000. The performance increase at almost double would be very welcome though from that little 4060, I wonder if they're on sale yet...
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Agreed, 12 GB had been more fitting like RTX 3060 had a 12 GB vram version. But 8 GB is still better than 6 GB, so i take what i can get. Besides Vram is not that big of a problem. For the heavy stuff, my RTX 4090 can take care of that.

Yes 4060 while is not fast by any standart, it is still all most twice as fast as a RTX A2000 and has 2 GB more vram compared to those that have the 6 GB version of A2000.

I have not yet seen it in stores. But closely keep an look out for it.

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Very interesting, no way it will fit in my chasis which is 17 cm (like all lp cards till now), but the radiator doesn't go all the way back, taking out those fans and adding some 2x7 cm ones that just barelly fit and connecting them to a molex should do the trick, thanks for the heads up.
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Your welcome.
 
M440 said:
are you able to to undervolt this card in windows using MSI Afterburner? I tried and I believe it was not working. I was able to control the fan 30%-100%

FYI this is how it looks in linux

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It did seem to do *something*, but was not effective at all. I'll have to try again.
 
Well if we must share pictures. My card is at the buttom of the case couple to the mini-itx system.

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wolf said:
Nice oc's +250ish seems about right for most A2000's I've seen. When you say voltage control, you want to just lower or raise a slider? I use the curve editor so you can effectively over or undervolt anyway.

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i want the curve editor, but iirc if you cannot drag the slider (like, when it doesn't show up at all ... or something), you can't use the curve editor either ... no?
am i missing something? xd
 
It's picture time? Alright

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80251 said:
@Tomgang
I really like that case so roomy you can park your car in there!
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Yes it´s big, but also heavy. It´s deffently not for a lan party pc or a pc you move around a lot. With thtat said, it´s great with do to space and all the different configuration this case supports. The case is by the way phanteks enthoo 719 black version.
 
@M440 were you using the V-F window? It does still apply Vcore, but clocks seem to be a bit wack hence not working so well at least until I get more in tune with what it likes and doesn't like.
 
the MSI app does not read the voltage and manipulating the curve doesn't seem to do anything, so i thought maybe it's card bios depended option,

if you are undervolting the card please show how you do this,


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M440 said:
the MSI app does not read the voltage and manipulating the curve doesn't seem to do anything, so i thought maybe it's card bios depended option,

if you are undervolting the card please show how you do this,


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Just the same as I would do with any other Pascal/Turing/Ampere/Ada card, drag up to desired point and hit apply to turn the graph flat beyond that point, and keep trying until you get it completely flat at the clock you want

Mine's a OEM card from Lenovo, dunno how old

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just don't copy this one, it's not stable or good
 
kinda random but ... have you noticed that the A2000's fans spin below the minimum 30% speed (as per afterburner) while the card's not in 3d mode? (ie, when you're in bios, still booting up ... or something)
 
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