AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GRID K1
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 4GB VRAM GRID K1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
2112 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+1642%
5.682 TFLOPS
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Mar 2013
Radeon Instinct
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
-
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
192
144
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
130W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GK107
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
