AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1600MHz vs 1440MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +27%

13.11 TFLOPS

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Pro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2

Memory Type

HBM2

2048bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

4096

Shading Units

3584

256

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA100

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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