Computer Upgrade King NVIDIA RTX A2000 6GB GDDR6 (~3050) Low Profile LP PCIe Professional Gaming Graphics Card with Full and Half Height Brackets (B-Grade)

This is most certainly not a brand new card. I don't know what the history was for my particular card prior to me purchasing it, but it had absolutely been installed and ran before as evident by the marks on the PCIe contacts and the dust both in and on the card. Perhaps they are salvaged from pre-built systems that were tested, but didn't get sold? I don't know, but whatever the history is I am glad it resulted in me getting an RTX A2000 6GB for significantly less than a brand new one!The box it arrived in was not the original box, nor did it come with all of the original accessories. It did come with (4) mini-DP to full-size DP adapters, but the half-height bracket in the box has absolutely no way to attach to the card as it is for a completely different card. Luckily enough, I just needed the full-height bracket that was already installed on it and that fits the card as it should.After installing it into my test system, everything booted up as it should and everything was recognized in Windows. Once the drivers were installed, I started running folding@home on it which is has been doing happily for nearly 3 months, 24 hours a day. The card is not too loud, stays well under the maximum temps the card is rated for, and pulls significantly less power than an RTX 3050 or RTX 3060 (which all use the same GA106 GPU die). It also overclocks pretty well for being heavily power limited by not having any external power connectors. Mine in particular runs happy with +1300 on the memory (haven't tested any higher) and somewhere around +150-200 on the core depending on where you look on the volt/frequency curve and depending on how much the memory is overclocked (I left it at +1000).Overall, great purchase for the price! I would absolutely recommend this card to anyone looking for a 6GB RTX A2000. My only wish is that the same could happen with the 12GB variant!

You can see that I have Anno 1800 running in behind the NVIDIA Control Panel and also the Windows Task Manager (which shows the GPU temperature) with the game running in the background. This was on a Windows 10 virtual machine, running inside of Proxmox 7.3-3 with the GPU passed through to the Windows 10 VM. And the picture quality might not be super because I was playing this via Remote Desktop to said Windows VM.It works.It's not the fastest gaming GPU there is, but for a low profile GPU, it might be one of the faster GPUs that you can get. (Yes, there are other faster GPUs overall, but those are all almost exclusive full-height cards, which means that it won't fit in my 2U server.)And this was done as a part of my mass consolidation project where I am pushing my gaming computers, along with my other systems, on to this, my new NAS server.You're not going to be breaking any records with this. If you run it natively (i.e. not through a VM and NOT through Windows Remote Desktop, you can probably get a bit more performance out of it).

I have read the fan is loud, I would not call it that. The fan isn't silent, but it's not loud by my standards. For about half the price of a new one, seems like a decent value. I got this for use with Solidworks, Solid Edge, and NX. It runs all of them fine (I don't have any crazy assemblies or parts). The latest driver doesn't always give the best performance with Solidworks works, try to stick with the approved/tested version from SW. Other software does not seem to have this issue. For video editing DaVinci Resolve and Lightworks have been trouble free with this card. For most use I can't say I see difference in performance compared to something of a recent generation. I am sure for jobs that would take hours to process there would be time difference for my use I don't see it and don't have something else to show the difference.

With the recent release of the RTX 4000 SFF, this is no longer the king of low profile low power SFF GPUs, but it's still an excellent choice, and basically THE choice unless you've got crazy pockets. My particular card has a few gremlins, sometimes I have to change mini-DP ports cause the one I used at that time had on screen artifacts (mild static etc), but it never stuck around after changing ports, and the previously effected port would be fine in the future. It was intermittent and never occurred after getting it fine the first time. The second biggest knock for me is the noisy fan. I'm so not a silence snob, but the grindy/whiny tone of this particular blower is distinguishable at idle from other system fans and is a mild bother if the room's quiet. Funny enough it's pretty quiet under full load. I don't get why there's so few quiet blowers being made (Outside of OEM pcs) cause it's totally doable. Anyway, in terms of actual gaming my rig has an i5 12400 so the GPU's almost always the bottleneck. It can't really do 1440p high refresh. It's got the VRAM for 1440p but not the horsepower. At 1080p I can push 100+fps in demanding games which is nice but it's about on par with the 2060 laptop GPU it replaced, if a bit faster. Another pro besides the tiny size is the power requirements. This runs easy and flawless on my 250w HDplex GAN passive PSU. Overall if you're building a tiny system and still want to game this is sensibly as good as it gets for now, and it's pretty good minus the gripes.

These are used cards which I knew going in. Used cards are hit or miss depending on who previous used the card. I was lucky to get a card that looks close to new and had no dust in the cooling fan. All of the cables where included and the mini bracket was also included. The fan is pretty quiet. Solid Works runs perfectly. I don't build giant parts in Solid Works so I don't need more then 6GB of video memory right now but more would have been appreciated. I'm using this as a stepping stone for purchasing an RTX a4050 later. The fact that this card doesn't need external power is quite astonishing. The card is about 1/4th the size of my previous video card from 2017 and is about 5% - 15% faster. I don't game with this but could do some light gaming if needed.