AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1502MHz vs 1335MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (20W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
+321%
23.07 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
Mar 2022
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
435 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
64bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
7680
Shading Units
2048
480
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
20W
700 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
GA107S
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
-
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
