NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro FX 580

0.072 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6 +7791%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 580

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Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro FX

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

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G96-875-C1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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