AMD Radeon Instinct MI308X vs AMD Radeon HD 6790
We compared a Professional market GPU: 192GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI308X and a Desktop platform GPU: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI308X 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2100MHz
More VRAM (192GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.3TB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
18656 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 750W)
Score
AMD Radeon Instinct MI308X
AMD Radeon HD 6790
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI308X
+5980%
81.72 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6790
1.344 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2023
Release Date
Apr 2011
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Northern Islands
Professional
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
2100 MHz
Boost Clock
0
2525 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
192GB
Memory Size
1024MB
HBM3
Memory Type
GDDR5
8192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.3TB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
304
Compute Units
10
SM Count
19456
Shading Units
800
1216
TMUs
40
0
ROPs
16
1216
Tensor Cores
RT Cores
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 MB
L3 Cache
0
Theoretical Performance
0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.44 GPixel/s
2554 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
653.7 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
81.72 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1344 GFLOPS
81.72 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
Board Design
750W
TDP
150W
1150 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Aqua Vanjaram
GPU Name
Barts
GPU Variant
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
CDNA 3.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
153 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
1017 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
CUDA
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
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