AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 W6900X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2150MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 24GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +113%

22.02 TFLOPS

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

2150 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

5120

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

224

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA100

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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