Radeon Instinct MI250X and L40S - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI250X

L40S

Architecture

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Aldebaran

AD102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2021

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

2520 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

6 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

58,200 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

14080

18176

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

1,496

1,431

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

8192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.2 GB/s

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

3,277 GB/s

864.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

N/A

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3