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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Nov 2021
Generation Southern Islands Radeon Instinct
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1600 MHz
Base Clock 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1700 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 128GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2e
Memory Bus 256bit 8192bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 3277GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 208
Shading Units 1280 13312
TMUs 80 832
ROPs 32 0
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate 80.00 GTexel/s 1414 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.560 TFLOPS 45.26 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 160.0 GFLOPS 45.26 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 362.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Aldebaran
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) Aldebaran
Architecture GCN 1.0 CDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 58.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 175W 500W
Suggested PSU 450 W 900 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 5.1 N/A