Tesla S2050 vs Radeon Instinct MI6

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameEllesmereGF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date12 December 2016 (8 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$11,999

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 cores2304448
Core clock speed1120 MHz574 MHz
Boost clock speed1233 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt900 Watt
Texture fill rate177.632.14
Floating-point processing power5.682 TFLOPS1.028 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs14456

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 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz773 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s148.4 GB/s

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2016 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 900 Watt

Instinct MI6 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 500% lower power consumption.

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