NVIDIA GRID A100A vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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NVIDIA GRID A100A AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1233MHz vs 1005MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A +144%

13.89 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

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Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Dec 2016

GRID

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

6144bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

6912

Shading Units

2304

432

TMUs

144

192

ROPs

32

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

150W

800 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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