AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Quadro K420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +1591%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro K420

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro K420

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.504 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.02 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.4 GFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

41W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK107

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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