ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +760%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon R700

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GA100

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

4.1

Shader Model

N/A

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