AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +83%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

165W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA100

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

438 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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