NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1709MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +135%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA100

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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