NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +172%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Aug 2012

Tesla

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

New Zealand

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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