NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA PG506 232

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1777MHz vs 1440MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +23%

12.74 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

192bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

28

3584

Shading Units

3584

224

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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