RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs Radeon Instinct MI210

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data6.82
Power efficiencyno data16.74
ArchitectureCDNA 2.0 (2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAldebaranAD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release dateDecember 2021 (2 years ago)3 December 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores665618176
Core clock speed1000 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2505 MHz
Number of transistors58,200 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate707.21,423
Floating-point processing power22.63 TFLOPS91.06 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUs416568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 GB48 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,638 GB/s960.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.8
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm

Instinct MI210 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 6000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI210 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI210
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