NVIDIA GRID A100A vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

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NVIDIA GRID A100A AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1005MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A +69%

13.89 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

VS

Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Dec 2016

GRID

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM

6144bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

6912

Shading Units

4096

432

TMUs

256

192

ROPs

64

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Fiji

-

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

175W

800 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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