AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1260MHz vs 1233MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+229%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Mar 2022
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
1233 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
58
2304
Shading Units
7424
144
TMUs
232
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
39.46 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
5.682 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
80W
450 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GA103
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
22 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.8
