AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 NVIDIA Quadro M5000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 8GB VRAM Quadro M5000 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 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1233MHz vs 1038MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +33%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro M5000

4.252 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro M5000

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jun 2015

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

861 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

66.43 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

132.9 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.252 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

132.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM204

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

GM204-875-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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