NVIDIA PG506 232 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA PG506 232

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +1854%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2008

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

901 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

R680

-

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

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

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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