AMD Radeon Pro VII vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro VII

NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 722 MHz
5886.6x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
2.5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1536
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB

Launch date	13 May 2020 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 250 Watt
5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Name	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	89655
PassMark - G2D Mark		556
PassMark - G3D Mark		3568

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro VII	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Vega 20	GM204
Launch date	13 May 2020	30 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$1899
Place in performance rating	198	196
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	722 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	1536
Pixel fill rate	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s	69.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	5,200 million
Floating-point performance		2,218 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	5012 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5