AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA Tesla K80

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

NVIDIA Tesla K80

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 and 12GB VRAM Tesla K80 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1233MHz vs 824MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI6 +38%

5.682 TFLOPS

Tesla K80

4.113 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

Tesla K80

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Nov 2014

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

562 MHz

1233 MHz

Boost Clock

824 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.6GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2496

144

TMUs

208

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.85 GPixel/s

177.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.4 GTexel/s

5.682 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.682 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.113 TFLOPS

355.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1371 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK210

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

GK210-885-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.1 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.7

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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