Product Compare

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs Intel Arctic Sound M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2016 Jan 2022
Generation Radeon Instinct Data Center GPU
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 8192
TMUs 144 256
ROPs 32 128
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 8 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 39.46 GPixel/s 115.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 177.6 GTexel/s 230.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.682 TFLOPS 29.49 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.682 TFLOPS 14.75 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 355.1 GFLOPS 3.686 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 8-pin EPS
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 6.6