NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1440MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +163%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

1664

Shading Units

3584

104

TMUs

224

56

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA100

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

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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