AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

PG506 232 +213%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA100

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

190W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.5

Shader Model

N/A

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