Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
6400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arctic Sound 2T
13.82 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI250X
+246%
47.87 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Nov 2021
Xe Graphics
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2e
4096bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
220
-
-
-
7680
Shading Units
14080
240
TMUs
880
120
ROPs
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
108.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
216.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1496 GTexel/s
27.65 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
383.0 TFLOPS
13.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
47.87 TFLOPS
3.456 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.87 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
500W
900 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Arctic Sound
GPU Name
Aldebaran
-
GPU Variant
Aldebaran XT
Generation 12.5
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
6 nm
8 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
190 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
N/A
