AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 Intel Arctic Sound 2T

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T +68%

13.82 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Arctic Sound 2T

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM

Memory Type

HBM2e

4096bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

7680

256

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

120

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

216.0 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.65 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.82 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.456 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

8 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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