Radeon Instinct MI250 vs GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Instinct MI250 Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
11776 additional rendering cores
GRID M6 8Q Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI250
+1940%
45260
GRID M6 8Q
2218
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz
Memory
128GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
8192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
3277GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
208
Compute Units
-
13312
Shading Units
1536
832
TMUs
96
0
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
362.1 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
45.26 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
45.26 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
100W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Aldebaran
GPU Name
GM204
Aldebaran
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
CDNA 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
58.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
