NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1770MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (60W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +127%

10.32 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

10

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA107

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

826 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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