AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 Intel Arctic Sound-M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +206%

45.26 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM2e

8192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

208

Compute Units

-

13312

Shading Units

8192

832

TMUs

256

0

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

16 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

6 nm

Process Size

10 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

500W

900 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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