Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+80%
14.75 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2016
Xe Graphics
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM
4096bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
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Compute Units
64
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-
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8192
Shading Units
4096
256
TMUs
256
128
ROPs
64
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-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
175W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Fiji
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GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Generation 12.7
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
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6.6
Shader Model
6.5
