NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Dec 2016
Generation
DRIVE
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
HBM
Memory Bus
6144bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
1.87TB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
4096
TMUs
432
256
ROPs
192
64
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
32 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
241.9 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
544.3 GTexel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
69.67 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
17.42 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.709 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
Fiji
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
596 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
Board Design
TDP
400W
175W
Suggested PSU
800 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170
CUDA
8.0
-
Shader Model
N/A
6.5