AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 95% higher core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 722 MHz
  • 6193.9x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 7 August 2017 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed 1406 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

  • 161.9x better floating-point performance: 2,218 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 345 Watt
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,218 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 345 Watt
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362
PassMark - G2D Mark 556
PassMark - G3D Mark 3568

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Vega 10 GM204
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 7 August 2017 30 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 215 217
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1677 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1406 MHz 722 MHz
Floating-point performance 13.7 TFLOPs 2,218 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines 4096 1536
Pixel fill rate 107.30 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s 69.31 GTexel / s
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 345 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 5,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 483.8 GB/s 160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore