AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA GRID K520Q

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

NVIDIA GRID K520Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 4GB VRAM GRID K520Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

11776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID K520Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +1877%

45.26 TFLOPS

GRID K520Q

2.289 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

GRID K520Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Instinct

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

8192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

208

Compute Units

-

13312

Shading Units

1536

832

TMUs

128

0

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

16 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.84 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.36 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.289 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

225W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

GK104

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

Unknown

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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