NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA PG506 242 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 336.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1852MHz vs 1440MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +37%

14.22 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

192bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3840

224

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

48

224

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

Board Design

165W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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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