AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1757MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

5.398 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +91%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

224.0GB/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

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GA100

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.5

Shader Model

N/A

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