AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA PG506 232

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1440MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

PG506 232 +76%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

PG506 232

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 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 Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

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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