AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 162% (3230MHz vs 1233MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI50
+365%
26.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
May 2025
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Navi IV
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
2048
144
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Navi 44
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
GCN 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
232 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
