NVIDIA Tesla K8 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

NVIDIA Tesla K8 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla K8 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (1700MHz vs 811MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

11776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla K8

2.491 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +1716%

45.26 TFLOPS

Tesla K8

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

693 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

811 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

208

1536

Shading Units

13312

128

TMUs

832

32

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

103.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

2.491 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

103.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Aldebaran

-

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

Kepler

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

100W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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