Radeon RX 590 vs PG506 242
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1545MHz vs 1440MHz)
PG506 242 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
7119
PG506 242
+44%
10320
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Apr 2021
Polaris
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
1545 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
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GA100
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 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