AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Quadro M500M

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Quadro M500M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 2GB VRAM Quadro M500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1233MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro M500M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +558%

5.682 TFLOPS

Quadro M500M

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Quadro M500M

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2016

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM108

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

N15M-Q3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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