AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
Oct 2020
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Quadro Ampere
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
10752
TMUs
144
336
ROPs
32
112
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
SM Count
-
84
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA102
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
-
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
17,742
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
9,324
OctaneBench
-
600
3DMark Speed Way
-
4,965
Blender
-
5,387