NVIDIA PG506 242 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

NVIDIA PG506 242 ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 165W)

Score

PG506 242

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2007

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

224

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

12

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV570

-

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Ampere

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

57W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

N/A

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

3.0

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