NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1710MHz vs 1440MHz)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +196%

30.64 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6X

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

70

3584

Shading Units

8960

224

TMUs

280

96

ROPs

96

224

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

628 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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