AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 4 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +80%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Pro GCN

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

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA100

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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