AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock3230MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+1092%
26.46 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Aug 2015
Navi IV
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
-
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
128
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
32
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
5.2 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
