NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +1976%

10.32 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2007

Tesla

Generation

FireStream

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

802 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV670

-

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.1

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