NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +281%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT 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

28.16 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Antilles

-

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

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

Board Design

165W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

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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