AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GRID M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 8GB VRAM GRID M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+616%
5.682 TFLOPS
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
May 2016
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
1300 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
83.20GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
384
144
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.53 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.06 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
793.3 GFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GM107
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
