NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +83%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon R9 290X

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

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

512bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

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