AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

NVIDIA RTX A6000

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

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (128GB vs 48GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1800MHz vs 1700MHz)

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +16%

45.26 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

38.71 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

RTX A6000

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

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

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1800 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

8192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

208

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

13312

Shading Units

10752

832

TMUs

336

0

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

604.8 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

38.71 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.71 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

604.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

300W

900 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

GA102

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

2

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

3

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

4

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16

5

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA GRID K240Q

6

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Tesla K10

7

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Intel Data Center GPU Flex 140

8

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Tesla M2050

9

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB

10

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU