**A Closer Look at the RTX A2000: Synthetic Benchmarks and Real-World Gaming Performance**

Synthetic benchmarks provide valuable insights into a system's capabilities, and the RTX A2000 is no exception. In 3DMark Night Raid, the A2000 scored an impressive 32440, while Time Spy delivered a respectable 6264. These results demonstrate the RTX A2000's performance prowess in synthetic workloads.

**Real-World Gaming Performance**

Now that we've examined the A2000's synthetic benchmarking prowess, let's dive into real-world gaming performance. The first game on our list is Black Myth: Wu Kong, which utilizes the built-in Benchmark tool to render at 1080p with DLSS set to 70% quality. The average frame rate achieved was a respectable 62 FPS, considering the demanding nature of this title.

Next up is Red Dead 2, which runs smoothly at 1080p high with DLSS set to Balance mode. Although we tweaked some settings to push performance further, we still managed an average of 81 FPS. This level of performance is impressive, especially when considering the CPU's TDP, which crept close to the 40W mark.

Forza Horizon 5 is another title that impressed us, delivering an average of 72 FPS at 1080p high with no DLSS. Although this game was a bit of a surprise, as we expected high performance, it still demonstrates the A2000's capabilities.

However, things took a turn for the worse when playing Overwatch 2. Initially, the game struggled to maintain a smooth frame rate, with the CPU maxing out at around 80%. Fortunately, this issue resolved itself after about a minute, and we were left with a pleasant gaming experience.

Last but not least, we tested Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which runs smoothly at 1080p medium with DLSS set to Balance mode. With the newer Nexxus games, FSR Frame Gen becomes available, allowing us to boost performance further. We also attempted to push the game up to 1440p ultra high, and while it did require some tweaking, we were pleased to see an average of around 92 FPS.

**Starfield: A Surprising Gem**

Finally, we tested Starfield, a title that initially presented some challenges with its medium setting and DLSS enabled. However, by enabling FSR Frame Gen, we managed to bring the frame rate up to an impressive 60 FPS. This demonstrates the RTX A2000's ability to excel in a variety of games, even those with demanding requirements.

**Overclocking Potential**

While not explicitly mentioned in this review, I plan on exploring overclocking with the RTX A2000 and pushing its performance further. With some modifications to the chassis and cooling system, it's possible that we can squeeze out more power from the CPU, potentially reaching higher frame rates or even surpassing 40W TDP.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our testing of the RTX A2000 has demonstrated its impressive synthetic benchmarking capabilities, as well as its performance prowess in real-world gaming scenarios. With its ability to deliver high frame rates and efficient power consumption, this GPU is sure to please enthusiasts and casual gamers alike. Stay tuned for more content featuring the RTX A2000, including overclocking experiments and system modifications.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is hands down the smallest RTX A2000 powered mini PC that you can put together right now it's coming in at 1 L and you can run AAA games on this thing all day long what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be turning this unassuming Lenovo Mini PC into a full-fledged gaming machine this is the Lenovo think Center m920q they do make a couple different variants but the one I have here has the i7 8700t so we've got six Cor and 12 threads now we could game on the UHD Graphics but it's really not going to do us any good for newer AAA games so we need something with a bit more power and for this I opted to use the Nvidia RTX A2000 this is actually a modified version I've taken the lowprofile Dual slot and turn it into a single slot low profile card using nerd wear's lowprofile A2000 cooler so it's a thirdparty company making these coolers here the one I have is actually the version one but if you take a look on their website right now version two is up for pre-order hopefully I can get my hands on it but they also make a lowprofile cooler for the A4000 which would give us a giant jump in performance but I don't have an A4000 because the price on those is way up there right now but either way I think the RTX A2000 is going to offer plenty of power for a small form factor gaming PC like this we're basically going to be able to play anything at 1080p with this one as you can see pulling the top off that m920q doesn't leave us much room to work with inside but luckily Lenovo did include a PCI e slot it's proprietary right now and you will need an adapter these are about $15 over on eBay but it takes it up to an x16 slot and it really only runs at PCI ex8 3.0 but it's plenty for the A2000 or even like an RTX 3050 most single Slot Cards are going to fit right inside of here something like that RX 6400 lowprofile single slot works great in this I've done a little bit of testing with it but again going over to that RTX A2000 is going to offer us much better performance there is one little thing we need to remove around back in order to get this in just two screws there you can remove it very easily now we'll go ahead and grab our GPU a choice use the pcie adapter and Slot the card right down inside of this Mini PC with this lowprofile cooler for the RTX A2000 the cover for the Lenovo does fit but then we need to worry about cooling so modifying this cover maybe cutting a hole here or even a larger hole system would definitely be the way to go right now I'm actually in the process of moving so I've got all of my tools at my other place in this video I'm going to be running this with the cover off but there's several people online that have modified these either cutting a hole to match up with the GPU intake or the CPU intake or use a 3D printed cover it would be pretty simple if I had my Dremel or even a step bit just to get a hole there big enough to draw air in and pull it through the whole chassis with that GPU if you buy one of these online and it comes with a power supply more than likely it's going to come with a 655 wat power supply and just for the CPU itself that's going to be more than enough but we've got this GPU that could pull up to close to 80 Watts CPU here up to 65 but you know sustained across the board 35 to 40 so that 65 watt power supply just isn't going to cut it luckily Lenovo does offer several different wattages you could go with a 160 and it'd be fine for a system like this I just had a 230 laying around so I figured we'd use it with this system system another thing to think about is RAM and storage and on the bottom we've got another cover we can add an m.2 SSD and dual Channel sodm ddr4 Ram I've got 16 gigs in here it'll run it up to 2666 with the m920q and when it comes to storage I'm going to be using a 2 TB m.2 SSD with this low profile RTX A2000 we're still working with a 1 L form factor so it's an ultra small form factor PC but now we can play AAA games on this thing all right so let's go ahead and start it up got our power button up front CPU fan and GPU fan is spinning up and like I mentioned I'm going to be running Windows 11 Pro so obviously from that RTX A2000 we've got HDMI going up to the monitor itself I have pre-installed some drivers here so it should boot right into windows and start working right off the bat but there are a few software tweaks that I want to go over just so we can get the the maximum performance out of this Mini PC before we get into testing there are a few things that I wanted to go over here there's a few settings that I needed to change in order to get the best performance out of this thing as you can see we've got the i7 8700t 16 gigs of RAM and of course we've got that Nvidia RTX A2000 with the lowprofile cooler installed with this small form factor Lenovo and that 8700t once we install a GPU and put a load on that GPU over that PC c e slot it's going to limit the CPU power so in order to take this up I use throttle stop and I've actually managed to get this up to around 40 Watts uh sustain while gaming so it's about 5 Watts more than we've seen in the past usually takes that CPU down around 35 Watts but I'll show you exactly what I've done here from throttle stop high performance mode is enabled Speed Shift EP is enabled we need to disable this right here it has to be disabled in order for us to get the maximum or as much as we can over to the CPU and the GPU at the same time speed step and c1e is also enabled from TPL this will allow us to adjust the TDP now I've got mine set to 45 Watts but it won't quite get there when we're putting a load on that GPU sync is enabled I've clamped the long power pl1 profile here to 45 watts and that's about it so I'll show you real quick over here we've got Cort temp power this is going to be our wattage I know it's a bit hard to see but when I run a stress test you'll see this jump up to 45 but as soon as I put a load on that GPU this is going to come down to around 40 so 38 to 41 I've seen while gaming not a ton of wattage but for this six core 12 thread CPU it's doing pretty decently now if we were to use a much larger PC we could definitely get more out of this and most of the time if you went with a small form factor or a mini tower you get the i7 8700 nont variant so last thing here with the low profile A2000 since we're using a totally new heat sink and you know cooling solution for that unit I do have to adjust the fan speed here now even at 100% it's not super loud in this PC but what I've been doing is going up to around 75 and it does seem to kind of keep it from thermal throttling with the cover off or if you were to modify the case on this thing so I've set this Fan's going to spin up just a bit more and now the first thing I wanted to show off were some benchmarks that I ran on this thing and then we're going to get right into some gaming because it's pretty impressive what this will do checking out some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark night raid coming in with a 32440 and I also ran time spy we got a pretty impressive 6,264 I mean given the form factor here this is a pretty impressive score but these are synthetic benchmarks and now it's time to get into some real world gaming first one on the the list here is black myth wo Kong just using the built-in Benchmark 1080p medium with dlss set to 70% got an average of 62 it's definitely a harder game to run so I'd probably take a few of those settings down Bel low next on the list Red Dead 2 1080 high with dlss set to balance and we could go through tweak those settings take it up just a bit more because with it setup like this we saw an average of 81 FPS and if you take a look at afterburner up in the top left hand corner CPU is getting close to that 40 W TDP like I mentioned this is usually around 35 up to around 40 and the RTX A2000 is pulling close to 70 WS Forza Horizon 5 1080 High settings no dlss this is one that I knew was going to perform great and I've tested this on the A2000 at 1440 in the past we can get an average of around 72 FPS with no dlss high settings 1440p I had a weird issue with OverWatch 2 now initially loading into this stage here before anybody else was on screen it was slowing down on me quite a bit I noticed that the CPU did kind of Max up to around 80% so I think we may have been a bit CPU bound with this game and that lower end i7 8700t but after about a minute everything cleared up and we're seeing a really nice frame rate here Ratchet and Clank Rift apart 1080 medium dlss set to balance didn't need any of that FSR frame gen we could use it here with these newer Nexxus games it's there so if you wanted to get over a 100 with it at medium or take it up to around the same at high settings you could always enable that and keep in mind it'll work with the dlss scaler also I wanted to throw OG Skyrim in so here it is at 1440p ultra high and I knew we weren't going to have an issue with this it's just one of my favorite games wanted to make sure we'd be good at 1440p with it so yeah with the older games you could definitely take them up 1440 and even some of the older stuff than this will run it 4k on the 2000 we're at a high medium mix this is something I had to go through just kind of adjust a few settings here and there 1080 with dlss set to balance now you could always take dlss to Performance if you want to but personally I think balance does look pretty good here I mean it is a bit noticeable with dlss either way at 1080 high medium mix we're seeing an average of around 92 FPS not this and the final game I wanted to test here was Starfield and initially I went into this at 1080 medium with dlss I tried balance and performance it wasn't a great experience at 1080 so what I had to do was enable FSR frame gen and now we're over that 60 Mark but I completely understand there's people out there that don't like frame genen but when you're working with a low speec system all of those Technologies added together can really help out the end experience so going into this I really wasn't sure what to expect but so far really impressed given the form factor here coming in at one liter we've got that RTX A2000 i7 six cores 12 threads albeit it is an older 8 gen Intel but with this thing only running up to around 40 watts in this I think it's performing absolutely amazing for what we have I need to modify this chassis and I will have at least one more video coming up I do want to do some overclocking with the A2000 maybe get the wattage up on this CPU if the temps will allow me with a modified cooling system so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button and think about subscribing so you don't miss the next one and if you want to put something like this together I will leave links for everything I used in this build Down Below in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this video if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running on this machine in the next video let me know in the comments like always thanks for watchingthis is hands down the smallest RTX A2000 powered mini PC that you can put together right now it's coming in at 1 L and you can run AAA games on this thing all day long what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be turning this unassuming Lenovo Mini PC into a full-fledged gaming machine this is the Lenovo think Center m920q they do make a couple different variants but the one I have here has the i7 8700t so we've got six Cor and 12 threads now we could game on the UHD Graphics but it's really not going to do us any good for newer AAA games so we need something with a bit more power and for this I opted to use the Nvidia RTX A2000 this is actually a modified version I've taken the lowprofile Dual slot and turn it into a single slot low profile card using nerd wear's lowprofile A2000 cooler so it's a thirdparty company making these coolers here the one I have is actually the version one but if you take a look on their website right now version two is up for pre-order hopefully I can get my hands on it but they also make a lowprofile cooler for the A4000 which would give us a giant jump in performance but I don't have an A4000 because the price on those is way up there right now but either way I think the RTX A2000 is going to offer plenty of power for a small form factor gaming PC like this we're basically going to be able to play anything at 1080p with this one as you can see pulling the top off that m920q doesn't leave us much room to work with inside but luckily Lenovo did include a PCI e slot it's proprietary right now and you will need an adapter these are about $15 over on eBay but it takes it up to an x16 slot and it really only runs at PCI ex8 3.0 but it's plenty for the A2000 or even like an RTX 3050 most single Slot Cards are going to fit right inside of here something like that RX 6400 lowprofile single slot works great in this I've done a little bit of testing with it but again going over to that RTX A2000 is going to offer us much better performance there is one little thing we need to remove around back in order to get this in just two screws there you can remove it very easily now we'll go ahead and grab our GPU a choice use the pcie adapter and Slot the card right down inside of this Mini PC with this lowprofile cooler for the RTX A2000 the cover for the Lenovo does fit but then we need to worry about cooling so modifying this cover maybe cutting a hole here or even a larger hole system would definitely be the way to go right now I'm actually in the process of moving so I've got all of my tools at my other place in this video I'm going to be running this with the cover off but there's several people online that have modified these either cutting a hole to match up with the GPU intake or the CPU intake or use a 3D printed cover it would be pretty simple if I had my Dremel or even a step bit just to get a hole there big enough to draw air in and pull it through the whole chassis with that GPU if you buy one of these online and it comes with a power supply more than likely it's going to come with a 655 wat power supply and just for the CPU itself that's going to be more than enough but we've got this GPU that could pull up to close to 80 Watts CPU here up to 65 but you know sustained across the board 35 to 40 so that 65 watt power supply just isn't going to cut it luckily Lenovo does offer several different wattages you could go with a 160 and it'd be fine for a system like this I just had a 230 laying around so I figured we'd use it with this system system another thing to think about is RAM and storage and on the bottom we've got another cover we can add an m.2 SSD and dual Channel sodm ddr4 Ram I've got 16 gigs in here it'll run it up to 2666 with the m920q and when it comes to storage I'm going to be using a 2 TB m.2 SSD with this low profile RTX A2000 we're still working with a 1 L form factor so it's an ultra small form factor PC but now we can play AAA games on this thing all right so let's go ahead and start it up got our power button up front CPU fan and GPU fan is spinning up and like I mentioned I'm going to be running Windows 11 Pro so obviously from that RTX A2000 we've got HDMI going up to the monitor itself I have pre-installed some drivers here so it should boot right into windows and start working right off the bat but there are a few software tweaks that I want to go over just so we can get the the maximum performance out of this Mini PC before we get into testing there are a few things that I wanted to go over here there's a few settings that I needed to change in order to get the best performance out of this thing as you can see we've got the i7 8700t 16 gigs of RAM and of course we've got that Nvidia RTX A2000 with the lowprofile cooler installed with this small form factor Lenovo and that 8700t once we install a GPU and put a load on that GPU over that PC c e slot it's going to limit the CPU power so in order to take this up I use throttle stop and I've actually managed to get this up to around 40 Watts uh sustain while gaming so it's about 5 Watts more than we've seen in the past usually takes that CPU down around 35 Watts but I'll show you exactly what I've done here from throttle stop high performance mode is enabled Speed Shift EP is enabled we need to disable this right here it has to be disabled in order for us to get the maximum or as much as we can over to the CPU and the GPU at the same time speed step and c1e is also enabled from TPL this will allow us to adjust the TDP now I've got mine set to 45 Watts but it won't quite get there when we're putting a load on that GPU sync is enabled I've clamped the long power pl1 profile here to 45 watts and that's about it so I'll show you real quick over here we've got Cort temp power this is going to be our wattage I know it's a bit hard to see but when I run a stress test you'll see this jump up to 45 but as soon as I put a load on that GPU this is going to come down to around 40 so 38 to 41 I've seen while gaming not a ton of wattage but for this six core 12 thread CPU it's doing pretty decently now if we were to use a much larger PC we could definitely get more out of this and most of the time if you went with a small form factor or a mini tower you get the i7 8700 nont variant so last thing here with the low profile A2000 since we're using a totally new heat sink and you know cooling solution for that unit I do have to adjust the fan speed here now even at 100% it's not super loud in this PC but what I've been doing is going up to around 75 and it does seem to kind of keep it from thermal throttling with the cover off or if you were to modify the case on this thing so I've set this Fan's going to spin up just a bit more and now the first thing I wanted to show off were some benchmarks that I ran on this thing and then we're going to get right into some gaming because it's pretty impressive what this will do checking out some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark night raid coming in with a 32440 and I also ran time spy we got a pretty impressive 6,264 I mean given the form factor here this is a pretty impressive score but these are synthetic benchmarks and now it's time to get into some real world gaming first one on the the list here is black myth wo Kong just using the built-in Benchmark 1080p medium with dlss set to 70% got an average of 62 it's definitely a harder game to run so I'd probably take a few of those settings down Bel low next on the list Red Dead 2 1080 high with dlss set to balance and we could go through tweak those settings take it up just a bit more because with it setup like this we saw an average of 81 FPS and if you take a look at afterburner up in the top left hand corner CPU is getting close to that 40 W TDP like I mentioned this is usually around 35 up to around 40 and the RTX A2000 is pulling close to 70 WS Forza Horizon 5 1080 High settings no dlss this is one that I knew was going to perform great and I've tested this on the A2000 at 1440 in the past we can get an average of around 72 FPS with no dlss high settings 1440p I had a weird issue with OverWatch 2 now initially loading into this stage here before anybody else was on screen it was slowing down on me quite a bit I noticed that the CPU did kind of Max up to around 80% so I think we may have been a bit CPU bound with this game and that lower end i7 8700t but after about a minute everything cleared up and we're seeing a really nice frame rate here Ratchet and Clank Rift apart 1080 medium dlss set to balance didn't need any of that FSR frame gen we could use it here with these newer Nexxus games it's there so if you wanted to get over a 100 with it at medium or take it up to around the same at high settings you could always enable that and keep in mind it'll work with the dlss scaler also I wanted to throw OG Skyrim in so here it is at 1440p ultra high and I knew we weren't going to have an issue with this it's just one of my favorite games wanted to make sure we'd be good at 1440p with it so yeah with the older games you could definitely take them up 1440 and even some of the older stuff than this will run it 4k on the 2000 we're at a high medium mix this is something I had to go through just kind of adjust a few settings here and there 1080 with dlss set to balance now you could always take dlss to Performance if you want to but personally I think balance does look pretty good here I mean it is a bit noticeable with dlss either way at 1080 high medium mix we're seeing an average of around 92 FPS not this and the final game I wanted to test here was Starfield and initially I went into this at 1080 medium with dlss I tried balance and performance it wasn't a great experience at 1080 so what I had to do was enable FSR frame gen and now we're over that 60 Mark but I completely understand there's people out there that don't like frame genen but when you're working with a low speec system all of those Technologies added together can really help out the end experience so going into this I really wasn't sure what to expect but so far really impressed given the form factor here coming in at one liter we've got that RTX A2000 i7 six cores 12 threads albeit it is an older 8 gen Intel but with this thing only running up to around 40 watts in this I think it's performing absolutely amazing for what we have I need to modify this chassis and I will have at least one more video coming up I do want to do some overclocking with the A2000 maybe get the wattage up on this CPU if the temps will allow me with a modified cooling system so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button and think about subscribing so you don't miss the next one and if you want to put something like this together I will leave links for everything I used in this build Down Below in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this video if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running on this machine in the next video let me know in the comments like always thanks for watching\n"