AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +269%

8.192 TFLOPS

GRID M6 8Q

2.218 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

GRID M6 8Q

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

Radeon Instinct

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.21 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.31 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.218 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

69.31 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GM204

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

GM204-995-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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