NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000 AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 94% (1746MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro K6000

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI50 +158%

13.41 TFLOPS

Quadro K6000

VS

Radeon Instinct MI50

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Quadro

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

797 MHz

Base Clock

1200 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1746 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

2880

Shading Units

3840

240

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

54.12 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.7 GPixel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

419.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.82 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.41 TFLOPS

1.732 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.705 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

Vega 20

GK110-890-B1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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