NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA PG506 242 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1785MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +105%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2019

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

192bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1408

224

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

48

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

TU116

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GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

7.5

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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