AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1440MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +108%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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