NVIDIA PG506 242 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

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NVIDIA PG506 242

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1546MHz vs 1440MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition +22%

12.66 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Aug 2017

Tesla

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1247 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

HBM2

3072bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

4096

224

TMUs

256

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Vega 10

-

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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