NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

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NVIDIA RTX A2000 AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1502MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A2000

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100 +188%

23.07 TFLOPS

RTX A2000

VS

Radeon Instinct MI100

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Nov 2020

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

562 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

26

SM Count

-

Compute Units

120

3328

Shading Units

7680

104

TMUs

480

48

ROPs

64

104

Tensor Cores

-

26

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

7.987 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

184.6 TFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.07 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.54 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Arcturus

GA106-850-A1

GPU Variant

Arcturus XL

Ampere

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

25.6 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

750 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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