NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1440MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +283%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

Tesla

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

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

33.60 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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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