AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 24GB VRAM RTX A5000 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 230W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1695MHz vs 1233MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
RTX A5000
+388%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Apr 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
1170 MHz
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
64
2304
Shading Units
8192
144
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
230W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GA102
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
628 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
