AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GRID K520

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA GRID K520

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 4GB VRAM GRID K520 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 5 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 K520

2.289 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

GRID K520

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jul 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GK104

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

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

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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