AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K500M 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K500M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +1642%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro K500M

0.326 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro K500M

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.60 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

326.4 GFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

13.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK107

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

N14M-Q1

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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