AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 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 MI250 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1700MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

11008 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +696%

45.26 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Nov 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

128GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

8192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

208

Compute Units

36

13312

Shading Units

2304

832

TMUs

144

0

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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