AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +158%

10.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

FirePro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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