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NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1792MB VRAM Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (142W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1792GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 89.86GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
0.486 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6 +1069%
5.682 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jun 2011
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
702 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

1792MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
89.86GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
36
8
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

7.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
15.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
486.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
243.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

142W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
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