NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +1631%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

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

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

448bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

56

240

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

289W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GA100

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

470 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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