AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +1439%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

0.369 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2007

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2304

Shading Units

128

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.40 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

368.6 GFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G80

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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