NVIDIA L4 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

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NVIDIA L4 AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4 +269%

30.29 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

L4

VS

Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Dec 2016

Tesla Ada

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

-

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

300.1GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

7424

Shading Units

4096

240

TMUs

256

80

ROPs

64

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Fiji

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

72W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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