NVIDIA PG506 242 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +3483%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2007

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

240

224

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

12

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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