NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile 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 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1537MHz vs 1502MHz)
Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Mobile
6.296 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI100
+266%
23.07 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Nov 2020
Ampere-MW
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
832 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1537 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
49.18 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
6.296 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
Board Design
30W
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
-
6.8
Shader Model
N/A
