AMD Radeon Instinct MI210 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 64GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI210 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 MI210 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1700MHz vs 1233MHz)
More VRAM (64GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1638GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI210
+298%
22.63 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2021
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
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
64GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1638GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
104
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
6656
Shading Units
2304
416
TMUs
144
0
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
707.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
181.0 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
22.63 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
22.63 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
Aldebaran
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
CDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
6 nm
Process Size
14 nm
58.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
