PG506-232 vs Radeon R5 310 OEM

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
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date5 May 2015 (9 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 cores1603584
Core clock speed775 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1440 MHz
Number of transistors370 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate6.200322.6
Floating-point processing power0.248 TFLOPS10.32 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs8224
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm267 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 typeDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit3072 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 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 DVI, 1x HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0N/A
OpenGL4.4N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 165 Watt

R5 310 OEM has 371.4% lower power consumption.

PG506-232, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 310 OEM and PG506-232. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 310 OEM is a desktop card while PG506-232 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM
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