AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 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 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 172.8GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (122W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +161%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

2.169 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2012

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

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

172.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.59 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

90.37 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.169 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.37 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

122W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK104

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 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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