NVIDIA PG506 232 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA PG506 232

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 232 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 232 +151%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

PG506 232

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Unknown

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tonga

-

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

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