AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1502MHz vs 1260MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (80W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
+23%
23.07 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
Mar 2022
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
58
7680
Shading Units
7424
480
TMUs
232
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
80W
700 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
GA103
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
-
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
22 billion
750 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.8
