Radeon Instinct MI250 vs GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Instinct MI250 Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
11776 additional rendering cores
GRID K2 Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI250
+1877%
45260
GRID K2
2289
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
May 2013
Radeon Instinct
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1600 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
128GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
8192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
3277GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
208
Compute Units
-
13312
Shading Units
1536
832
TMUs
128
0
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
362.1 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
45.26 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
45.26 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
225W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Aldebaran
GPU Name
GK104
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
CDNA 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
58.2 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
Unknown
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (11_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.175
-
CUDA
3.0
N/A
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
