Quadro RTX A6000 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX A6000

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

Ampere

Aldebaran

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

October 2020

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1800 MHz

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

625.0

1,414

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

16000 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

768.0 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

N/A