NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
+269%
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Dec 2016
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
4096
96
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Fiji
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
