AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 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 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +263%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

88.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.842 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

710.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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