AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 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 MI6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+156%
5.682 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
1536
144
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GM204
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
