NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

VS

NVIDIA RTX A6000

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1800MHz vs 1502MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +67%

38.71 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100

23.07 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Radeon Instinct MI100

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Nov 2020

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

120

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

7680

336

TMUs

480

112

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

184.6 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.07 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.54 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Arcturus

-

GPU Variant

Arcturus XL

Ampere

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

25.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

750 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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