AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA L4

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA L4

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 24GB VRAM L4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)

NVIDIA L4 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

L4 +269%

30.29 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

L4

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2023

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Tesla Ada

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

795 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

300.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

60

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

7424

256

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.2 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

489.6 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.29 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.29 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

473.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

AD104

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

AD104-???-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

72W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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