NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA PG506 232

VS

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA PG506 232

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1740MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 695.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +262%

37.42 TFLOPS

PG506 232

10.32 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

56

10752

Shading Units

3584

336

TMUs

224

112

ROPs

96

336

Tensor Cores

224

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA100

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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