A100 PCIe and Radeon Instinct MI250X - video card comparison

A100 PCIe

Radeon Instinct MI250X

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

GA100

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

June 2020

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

54,200 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6912

14080

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

609.1

1,496

Memory type

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

40 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

5120 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.4 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,555 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

N/A