NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1440MHz vs 1030MHz)

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 +291%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Aug 2015

Tesla

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 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

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3584

Shading Units

1280

224

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT 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

32.96 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Trinidad

-

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

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

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 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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