AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs Intel Arctic Sound M

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

Intel Arctic Sound M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

Intel Arctic Sound M +80%

14.75 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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Intel Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM

Memory Type

HBM2e

4096bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

8192

256

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

128

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

DG2-512

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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