Radeon RX 6700 XT vs PG506 242
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2581MHz vs 1440MHz)
PG506 242 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+28%
13210
PG506 242
10320
Graphics Card
Mar 2021
Release Date
Apr 2021
Navi II
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2321 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
2581 MHz
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
192bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
2560
Shading Units
3584
160
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
24 MB
96 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
26.43 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
165W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Navi 22
GPU Name
GA100
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
7 nm
17.2 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
335 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.5
Shader Model
N/A