NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1440MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +327%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2015

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

5.2

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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