AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI210
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 64GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI210 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 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI210 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (64GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1638GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
8.192 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI210
+176%
22.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Dec 2021
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
64GB
HBM
Memory Type
HBM2e
4096bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1638GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
104
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
6656
256
TMUs
416
64
ROPs
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
707.2 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
181.0 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.63 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.63 TFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
300W
450 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
Aldebaran
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
GCN 3.0
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
N/A
