AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (2498MHz vs 1440MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +494%

61.39 TFLOPS

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Navi III

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1929 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

2498 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

96

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

3584

384

TMUs

224

192

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

479.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

959.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

122.8 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

61.39 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

1.918 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GA100

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

355W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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