AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1440MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +984%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA100

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

123 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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