RTX A500 Mobile vs Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Mobile Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1537MHz vs 1233MHz)
Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)
Radeon Instinct MI6 Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Mobile
+10%
6296
Radeon Instinct MI6
5682
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Dec 2016
Ampere-MW
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
832 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1537 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
2304
64
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.18 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
6.296 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
150W
-
Suggested PSU
450 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
