AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD Radeon VII

We compared a Professional market GPU: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and a Desktop platform GPU: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1.02GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1750MHz vs 1700MHz)

Lower TDP (295W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +236%

45.26 TFLOPS

Radeon VII

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Feb 2019

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Vega II

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM2

8192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

1.02TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

208

Compute Units

60

13312

Shading Units

3840

832

TMUs

240

0

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

Vega 20

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

7 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

Unknown

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

295W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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