AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +2%

8.192 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 12 GB

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

RTX A2000 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Nov 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

562 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

26

4096

Shading Units

3328

256

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

104

-

RT Cores

26

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GA106

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

276 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

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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