AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA PG506 232

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

PG506 232 +1036%

10.32 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

32bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

384

Shading Units

3584

24

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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