Product Compare

AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Feb 2019 Dec 2016
Generation Vega II Radeon Instinct
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1400 MHz
Boost Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 4GB
Memory Type HBM2 HBM
Memory Bus 4096bit 4096bit
Bandwidth 1020GB/s 512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 60 64
Shading Units 3840 4096
TMUs 240 256
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 112.0 GPixel/s 64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 420.0 GTexel/s 256.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 26.88 TFLOPS 8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 13.44 TFLOPS 8.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 3.360 TFLOPS 512.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 20 Fiji
GPU Variant Vega 20 XT Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 3.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 7 nm 28 nm
Transistors 13.23 billion 8.9 billion
Die Size 331 mm² 596 mm²
Board Design
TDP 295W 175W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.2.170
Shader Model 6.7 6.5