AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA PG506 242

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570X

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 570X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1440MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X

5.095 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +102%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

224.0GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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