NVIDIA PG506-242: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started PG506-242 sales 12 April 2021. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 24 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.22 GHz are supplied, and together with 3072 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 933.1 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 8-pin EPS power connector is required, and power consumption is at 165 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about PG506-242: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 April 2021 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
PG506-242's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of PG506-242's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3584 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 930 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 1440 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 165 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 322.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 10.32 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 96 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 224 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 224 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of PG506-242 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-pin EPS |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on PG506-242: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 3072 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1215 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 933.1 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on PG506-242. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by PG506-242, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 8.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to PG506-242 is Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary.
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