AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GRID M60 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 8GB VRAM GRID M60 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID M60 8Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+69%
8.192 TFLOPS
GRID M60 8Q
4.825 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Aug 2015
Radeon Instinct
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
557 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
2048
256
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
150.8 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.825 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
150.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GM204
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
