AMD Radeon Instinct MI6: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Instinct MI6 sales 12 December 2016. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon Instinct MI6: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Ellesmere | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 December 2016 (7 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon Instinct MI6's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Instinct MI6's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2304 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1120 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1233 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 177.6 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 5,682 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Instinct MI6 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 241 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Instinct MI6: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 7000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Instinct MI6. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon Instinct MI6, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Instinct MI6 is GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
