AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1440MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +380%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA100

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

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

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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