Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
9216 additional rendering cores
Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI250
+452%
45260
Radeon Instinct MI8
8192
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Dec 2016
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM
8192bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
3277GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
208
Compute Units
64
13312
Shading Units
4096
832
TMUs
256
0
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
362.1 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
45.26 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
45.26 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
175W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Aldebaran
GPU Name
Fiji
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
CDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
58.2 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
Unknown
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
N/A
Shader Model
6.5
