AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1440MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +283%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA100

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

212 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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