AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 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 MI8 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1260MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
8.192 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+128%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Mar 2022
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
585 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
58
4096
Shading Units
7424
256
TMUs
232
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
80W
450 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GA103
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
22 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
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
8.6
6.5
Shader Model
6.8
