NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1440MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +217%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2012

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

8.0

CUDA

3.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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