RTX A500 Mobile vs Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Mobile Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1537MHz
Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)
Radeon Instinct MI8 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Mobile
6296
Radeon Instinct MI8
+30%
8192
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Dec 2016
Ampere-MW
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
832 MHz
Base Clock
-
1537 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
-
Compute Units
64
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
4096
64
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.18 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
6.296 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
175W
-
Suggested PSU
450 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
Fiji
-
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
(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
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
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.5
