AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1440MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +67%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

Polaris

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1340 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

-

SM Count

56

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

185W

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 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

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