NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1502MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI100
+940%
23.07 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Nov 2020
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1502 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
120
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
7680
96
TMUs
480
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Arcturus
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
Arcturus XL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
CDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
25.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
N/A
