NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1440MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +727%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2019

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

224

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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