AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A10 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (600.2GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

A10 PCIe +281%

31.24 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

A10 PCIe

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

600.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

72

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

9216

256

TMUs

288

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

72

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

488.2 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

31.24 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.24 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

976.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GA102

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

GA102-890-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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