AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1440MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +151%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GA100

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

365 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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