NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA PG506 232

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +593%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2010

Tesla

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

960

224

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

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