AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 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 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1700MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

11008 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +696%

45.26 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Nov 2021

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

1700 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

208

2304

Shading Units

13312

144

TMUs

832

32

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Aldebaran

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

GCN 4.0

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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