NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 4600 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 FX 4600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (134W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
2208 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4600
0.23 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
+2370%
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
2304
24
TMUs
144
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
96 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
230.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
134W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G80
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G80-850-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
90 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.681 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
484 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1 (1.0)
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.0
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
