NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Dec 2016
Generation
DRIVE
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1233 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
8GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
6144bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.87TB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
2304
TMUs
432
144
ROPs
192
32
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
32 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
241.9 GPixel/s
39.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
544.3 GTexel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
69.67 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
17.42 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.709 TFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
Ellesmere
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
7 nm
14 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
232 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Ellesmere XT
Board Design
TDP
400W
150W
Suggested PSU
800 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
8.0
-
Shader Model
N/A
6.4