NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and a Professional market GPU: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2520MHz vs 1502MHz)

8704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 1008GB/s)

Lower TDP (300W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +257%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100

23.07 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon Instinct MI100

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Nov 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

120

16384

Shading Units

7680

512

TMUs

480

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

72 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

184.6 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.07 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.54 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Arcturus

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Arcturus XL

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

25.6 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

750 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

300W

850 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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