PG506-242 vs ATI Radeon 7200

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR100GA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 April 2000 (24 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data3584
Core clock speed166 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1440 MHz
Number of transistors30 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate1322.6
Floating-point processing powerno data10.32 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs6224
Tensor Coresno data224

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRHBM2
Maximum RAM amount32 MB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit3072 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/s933.1 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX7.0N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGL1.3N/A
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2000 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 165 Watt

ATI 7200 has 617.4% lower power consumption.

PG506-242, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 21 year, a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 7200 and PG506-242. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 7200 is a desktop card while PG506-242 is a workstation one.


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