NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +358%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Dec 2010

Tesla

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1408

224

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

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