NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1200MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000
7.987 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
+2%
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2021
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
562 MHz
Base Clock
-
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM
192bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
26
SM Count
-
3328
Shading Units
4096
104
TMUs
256
48
ROPs
64
104
Tensor Cores
-
26
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
7.987 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Fiji
GA106-850-A1
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.5
