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AMD Instinct MI50

vs

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of AMD Instinct MI50 and NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

AMD Instinct MI50

Higher Bandwidth: 1024 GB/s (1024 GB/s vs 960.0 GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Higher Boost Clock: 2505MHz (1746MHz vs 2505MHz)
Larger Memory Size: 48GB (16GB vs 48GB)
More Shading Units: 18176 (3840 vs 18176)
Newer Launch Date: December 2022 (November 2018 vs December 2022)

Basic

AMD

Label Name

NVIDIA

November 2018

Launch Date

December 2022

Professional

Platform

Desktop

Radeon Instinct MI50

Model Name

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Ada

1200MHz

Base Clock

915MHz

1746MHz

Boost Clock

2505MHz

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Transistors

76,300 million

RT Cores

142

Tensor Cores

Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.

568

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

568

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

4 nm

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Memory Specifications

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

384bit

1000MHz

Memory Clock

2500MHz

1024 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

960.0 GB/s

Display and Media

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Theoretical Performance

111.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

481.0 GPixel/s

419.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

1423 GTexel/s

26.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

91.06 TFLOPS

6.705 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

1423 GFLOPS

13.142 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

89.239 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

142

3840

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

18176

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4MB

L2 Cache

96MB

300W

TDP

300W

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

OpenCL Version

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

CUDA

8.9

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

192

Shader Model

6.7

Suggested PSU

700W