NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 695.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1740MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +262%

37.42 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

Tesla

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

84

3584

Shading Units

10752

224

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

112

224

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA102

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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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