Product Compare

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2016 Aug 2020
Generation Radeon Instinct Radeon Pro Mac
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1120 MHz 1187 MHz
Boost Clock 1233 MHz 1757 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 224.0GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 24
Shading Units 2304 1536
TMUs 144 96
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 39.46 GPixel/s 56.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 177.6 GTexel/s 168.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.682 TFLOPS 10.80 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.682 TFLOPS 5.398 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 355.1 GFLOPS 337.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Navi 14
GPU Variant Ellesmere XT Navi 14 PRO XL
Architecture GCN 4.0 RDNA 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 6.4 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 158 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 125W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.4 6.5