NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1725MHz vs 1440MHz)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +96%

20.31 TFLOPS

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

3584

184

TMUs

224

96

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

224

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA100

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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