AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GRID K260Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 2GB VRAM GRID K260Q 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 6 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+148%
5.682 TFLOPS
GRID K260Q
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Jun 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
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
1536
144
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GK104
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 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
