AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA PG506 232

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA PG506 232

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

PG506 232 +151%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA100

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.3

Shader Model

N/A

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