Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI250
+206%
45.26 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
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
208
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
13312
256
TMUs
832
128
ROPs
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
362.1 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
45.26 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.26 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
500W
900 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Aldebaran
-
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Generation 12.7
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
6 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
