NVIDIA PG506 242 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

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

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +344%

10.32 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2009

Tesla

Generation

Evergreen

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

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

23.20 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Hemlock

-

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

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

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