AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded 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 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1335MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +49%

8.192 TFLOPS

RTX A500 Embedded

5.468 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

RTX A500 Embedded

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2022

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

435 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1335 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

64bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.72 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.44 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.468 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.468 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GA107S

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

8.7 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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