AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20s

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 NVIDIA Tesla K20s

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20s 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 10 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 K20s 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +97%

5.682 TFLOPS

Tesla K20s

2.87 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Tesla K20s

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Feb 2013

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

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2496

144

TMUs

208

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.90 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

119.6 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.870 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

956.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK110

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

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

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