NVIDIA L4 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2040MHz vs 1700MHz)

Lower TDP (72W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X's Advantages

More VRAM (128GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4

30.29 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250X +58%

47.87 TFLOPS

L4

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250X

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795MHz

Base Clock

1000MHz

2040MHz

Boost Clock

1700MHz

1563MHz

Memory Clock

1600MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

128GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

192bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

300.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

3277 GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

220

7424

Shading Units

14080

240

TMUs

880

80

ROPs

0

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48MB

L2 Cache

16MB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1496 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

383.0 TFLOPS

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.87 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.87 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Aldebaran

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

Aldebaran XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

6 nm

35,800 million

Transistors

58,200 million

294mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

72W

TDP

500W

250W

Suggested PSU

900W

No outputs

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

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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