AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

Intel Arctic Sound 2T

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)

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

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +227%

45.26 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T

13.82 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Arctic Sound 2T

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM2e

8192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

208

Compute Units

-

13312

Shading Units

7680

832

TMUs

240

0

ROPs

120

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

16 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

216.0 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.65 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.82 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.456 TFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

500W

900 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

6 nm

Process Size

10 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

190 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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