NVIDIA GRID K2 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI210
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 64GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI210 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI210 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (64GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1638GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI210
+888%
22.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Dec 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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
64GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1638GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
104
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
6656
128
TMUs
416
32
ROPs
0
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
707.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
181.0 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.63 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.63 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Aldebaran
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Kepler
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
N/A
