NVIDIA PG506 232 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +2311%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2007

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.1

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