NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1725MHz vs 1440MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +29%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

7.949 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

Tesla

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Navi 10

-

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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