NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 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 Clock has increased by 56% (1440MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +211%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon HD 8950 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

850 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

384bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1792

224

TMUs

112

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

103.6 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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