NVIDIA PG506 242 vs ATI FireGL V3600

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NVIDIA PG506 242 ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3464 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +7066%

10.32 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

PG506 242

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FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2007

Tesla

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR2

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

3584

Shading Units

120

224

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

73W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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