NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA PG506 232

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +279%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

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

1050 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1600

224

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

334 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA L20

2

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

3

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

4

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD FirePro W600

5

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

6

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD Radeon HD 7750

7

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs ATI FirePro V3800

8

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA B200 SXM 192 GB

9

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

10

NVIDIA PG506 232 vs ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU