NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +335%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

Tesla

Generation

Sea 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

1400 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

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

29.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

212 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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