AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+257%
8.192 TFLOPS
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
May 2013
Radeon Instinct
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
1536
256
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GK104
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2.175
-
CUDA
3.0
6.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
