NVIDIA GRID K500 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

NVIDIA GRID K500

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID K500

2.289 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8 +257%

8.192 TFLOPS

GRID K500

VS

Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Dec 2016

GRID

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

1536

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

2.289 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

95.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Fiji

-

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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