NVIDIA GRID K520 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

NVIDIA GRID K520

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 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 5 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 K520

2.289 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6 +148%

5.682 TFLOPS

GRID K520

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Jul 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

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

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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