NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (20W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1502MHz vs 1335MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
5.468 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI100
+321%
23.07 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Nov 2020
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
1502 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
64bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
120
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
7680
64
TMUs
480
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
300W
-
Suggested PSU
700 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
Arcturus
-
GPU Variant
Arcturus XL
Ampere
Architecture
CDNA 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
25.6 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
N/A
