NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

VS

NVIDIA RTX A6000

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1800MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +581%

38.71 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2304

336

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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