AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA PG506 232
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 24GB VRAM PG506 232 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA PG506 232 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
PG506 232
+80%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
512bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
2816
Shading Units
3584
176
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
165W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GA100
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.3
Shader Model
N/A
