AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 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 MI100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1700MHz vs 1502MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 32GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI100

23.07 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +96%

45.26 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Nov 2020

Release Date

Nov 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1502 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

128GB

HBM2

Memory Type

HBM2e

4096bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

120

Compute Units

208

7680

Shading Units

13312

480

TMUs

832

64

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

96.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

721.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

184.6 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

23.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

11.54 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arcturus

GPU Name

Aldebaran

Arcturus XL

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

CDNA 1.0

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

6 nm

25.6 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

750 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

300W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

N/A

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

N/A

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