AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Mobile 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 176.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1358MHz

Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +17%

8.192 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 Mobile

6.953 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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RTX A2000 Mobile

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

893 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1358 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.18 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.953 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.953 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.6 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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