Quadro NVS 290 vs Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (21W vs 150W)
Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro NVS 290
29
Radeon Instinct MI6
+19493%
5682
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro NVS
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2304
8
TMUs
144
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
21W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DMS-59
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
