Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Intel Arctic Sound M

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Boost Clock1233MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Intel Arctic Sound M +159%

14.75 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

Intel Arctic Sound M

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2016

Xe Graphics

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

8192

Shading Units

2304

256

TMUs

144

128

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

6 nm

Process Size

14 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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