NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1440MHz vs 1330MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +68%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

Tesla

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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