NVIDIA GRID K2 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 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 7 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
+148%
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Dec 2016
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2.175
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.4
