AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1800MHz vs 1502MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
23.07 TFLOPS
RTX A6000
+67%
38.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
Oct 2020
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
48GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
84
7680
Shading Units
10752
480
TMUs
336
64
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
300W
700 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
GA102
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
-
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
