GRID M40 vs Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GRID M40 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)
Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
3712 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
Radeon Instinct MI8
+933%
8192
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Dec 2016
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
384
Shading Units
4096
32
TMUs
256
16
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Fiji
-
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
