PG506-232 vs Radeon Pro 5600M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking230not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency33.13no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 12GA100
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date15 June 2020 (4 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 cores25603584
Core clock speed1000 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHz1440 MHz
Number of transistorsno data54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate164.8322.6
Floating-point processing power5.274 TFLOPS10.32 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs160224
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit3072 Bit
Memory clock speed770 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth394.2 GB/s933.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.5N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2020 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 165 Watt

Pro 5600M has 230% lower power consumption.

PG506-232, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro 5600M and PG506-232. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro 5600M is a mobile workstation card while PG506-232 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
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