AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1440MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +139%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

288.0GB/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)

768 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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