AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1335MHz vs 1233MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
+3%
5.682 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Mar 2022
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
435 MHz
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
2304
Shading Units
2048
144
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GA107S
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
