NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB

The RTX A2000 is the newer part: Ampere, launched in 2022, against the A100's Ampere from 2020. Newer architectures typically add lower-precision formats and better throughput per watt, so check the precision rows your workload actually uses.

Dense throughput for the RTX A2000 against the A100: FP64 0.1 vs 9.7 TFLOPS, FP32 8 vs 20 TFLOPS, FP16 8 vs 312 TFLOPS. Sparse figures, where the vendor publishes them, appear under each dense number in the performance table.

Memory is 12 GB against 40 GB, fed at 288 GB/s versus 1.6 TB/s. More memory per GPU means larger models fit before you have to shard across cards, which often matters more than raw TFLOPS for inference.

Power budgets are 70 W for the RTX A2000 and 400 W for the A100. At FP32 that works out to 0.11 against 0.05 TFLOPS per watt.

For LLM training and inference, weight the FP8 and FP16 rows and memory capacity most heavily. For scientific and HPC workloads, the FP64 row is the one to read.