NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1755MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +27%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

8.087 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

56.16 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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