NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q 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 M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
+156%
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
