NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

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NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded 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 A500 Embedded 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1335MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A500 Embedded

5.468 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8 +49%

8.192 TFLOPS

RTX A500 Embedded

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Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

Mar 2022

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

435 MHz

Base Clock

-

1335 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

64bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

2048

Shading Units

4096

64

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

85.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

5.468 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

5.468 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

85.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107S

GPU Name

Fiji

-

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

175W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

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