AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs NVIDIA A10G
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 12GB VRAM A10G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)
NVIDIA A10G 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1710MHz vs 1502MHz)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
23.07 TFLOPS
A10G
+36%
31.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
Apr 2021
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
600.2GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
72
7680
Shading Units
9216
480
TMUs
288
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
72
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
492.5 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
31.52 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
31.52 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
985.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
GA102
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
GA102-890-A1
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
