AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2016
Oct 2016
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Arctic Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
211.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
28
Shading Units
2304
1792
TMUs
144
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
135.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
4.322 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
4.322 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
270.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Polaris 10 PROD
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4