NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1440MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +464%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA100

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

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

5.2

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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