AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1700MHz vs 1260MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250X +155%

47.87 TFLOPS

RTX A5500 Max Q

18.71 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250X

VS

RTX A5500 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Mar 2022

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

585 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1260 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

8192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

220

Compute Units

-

SM Count

58

14080

Shading Units

7424

880

TMUs

232

0

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

1496 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

292.3 GTexel/s

383.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

18.71 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.71 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

292.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

80W

900 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

GA103

Aldebaran XT

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

22 billion

Unknown

Die Size

496 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Intel Data Center GPU Max 1350

2

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

3

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA Quadro K3000M

4

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Embedded

5

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA GRID A100A

6

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA GRID RTX T10 4

7

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA RTX A4 Mobile

8

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA GRID K1

9

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

10

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA Quadro P500 Mobile

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game