AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1502MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100 +306%

23.07 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Radeon Instinct MI100

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Nov 2020

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

120

2304

Shading Units

7680

144

TMUs

480

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

184.6 TFLOPS

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.07 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.54 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Arcturus

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

Arcturus XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

25.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

750 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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