AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2016
Jan 2021
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Xe Graphics
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
1229GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
7680
TMUs
144
240
ROPs
32
120
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
8 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
108.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
216.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
27.65 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
13.82 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
3.456 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Ellesmere
Arctic Sound
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
-
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Generation 12.5
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Intel
Process Size
14 nm
10 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
8 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
190 mm²

Board Design

TDP
150W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 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
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
6.5