AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 NVIDIA RTX A2000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1233MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 +40%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

RTX A2000

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

562 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

26

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3328

144

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

104

-

RT Cores

26

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA106

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

GA106-850-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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