NVIDIA Tesla C870 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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NVIDIA Tesla C870 AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Tesla C870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1233MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla C870

0.346 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6 +1542%

5.682 TFLOPS

Tesla C870

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Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2016

Tesla

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

128

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

90 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.0

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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