GRID M40 vs Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
Radeon Instinct MI6
+616%
5682
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Dec 2016
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
384
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
