NVIDIA GRID K260Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM GRID K260Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K260Q
2.289 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
+257%
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2013
Release Date
Dec 2016
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
4096
128
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
175W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Fiji
-
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
