AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X 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 MI250X 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
6400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI250X
+246%
47.87 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound 2T
13.82 TFLOPS
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
220
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
14080
Shading Units
7680
880
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
1496 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
216.0 GTexel/s
383.0 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.65 TFLOPS
47.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.82 TFLOPS
47.87 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 XT
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
