AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1502MHz vs 1233MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
+306%
23.07 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
Dec 2016
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
7680
Shading Units
2304
480
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
