AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+61%
5.682 TFLOPS
Tesla K20c
3.524 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Nov 2012
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
-
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
208.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
2496
144
TMUs
208
32
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.71 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
146.8 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.524 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1175 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GK110
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
GK110-885-KA-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
561 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
3.5
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
