AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

Intel Arctic Sound-M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)

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

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250X +224%

47.87 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250X

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Data Center GPU

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

8192

880

TMUs

256

0

ROPs

128

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

16 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

1496 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

383.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

500W

900 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

6.6

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