NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA PG506 232

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1440MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +420%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2012

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

192bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

960

224

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

24

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

24 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GK106

-

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

8.0

CUDA

3.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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