NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1470MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +52%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Feb 2024

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

96bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

18

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

72

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA107

-

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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