NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1440MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +107%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

5.2

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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