AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +358%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2021

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA100

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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