AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1440MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +727%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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