RTX A500 Embedded vs Radeon Instinct MI250
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Embedded Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 500W)
Radeon Instinct MI250 Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1700MHz vs 1335MHz)
More VRAM (128GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
11264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
5468
Radeon Instinct MI250
+727%
45260
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Nov 2021
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
64bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
208
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
13312
64
TMUs
832
32
ROPs
0
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
362.1 TFLOPS
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
45.26 TFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.26 TFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
500W
-
Suggested PSU
900 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
Aldebaran
-
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Ampere
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
6 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
N/A
