NVIDIA GRID K1 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
13120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI250
+13783%
45.26 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
Nov 2021
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128GB
DDR3
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
208
-
-
-
192
Shading Units
13312
16
TMUs
832
16
ROPs
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
362.1 TFLOPS
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
45.26 TFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.26 TFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
500W
300 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Aldebaran
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Kepler
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
