AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1410MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (80GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1935GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB +243%

19.49 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jun 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1512 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

80GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1935GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

108

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

6912

144

TMUs

432

32

ROPs

160

-

Tensor Cores

432

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA100

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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