NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +3272%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

64bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

192

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GK208B

-

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

8.0

CUDA

3.5

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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