AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 143.4GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 231W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +452%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro 6000 SDI

1.028 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

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Quadro 6000 SDI

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 2011

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

747 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

448

144

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.07 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.14 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1028 GFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

513.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF100

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

231W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1x S-Video 2x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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