NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +1559%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1107 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

512bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

30

3584

Shading Units

240

224

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

1.3

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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