NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +1559%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

56

240

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA100

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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