NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA PG506 242 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

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

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1665MHz vs 1440MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +56%

16.2 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Feb 2022

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4864

224

TMUs

152

96

ROPs

80

224

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GA103S

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GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

826 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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