AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2016
Jan 2025
Generation
Radeon Instinct
GeForce 50
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1120 MHz
2017 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
2407 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
32GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
1.79TB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
21760
TMUs
144
680
ROPs
32
176
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
96 MB
SM Count
-
170
Tensor Cores
-
680
RT Cores
-
170

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
423.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
1636.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Ellesmere
GB202
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GB202-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
750 mm²

Board Design

TDP
150W
575W
Suggested PSU
450 W
950 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
46,923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
25,766
3DMark Speed Way
-
14,614
Blender
-
14,945