NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 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 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +80%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2014

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

65.15 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Vesuvius

-

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

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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