
Radeon Instinct MI8 and A100 PCIe 80 GB - video card comparison
Radeon Instinct MI8
A100 PCIe 80 GB
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Fiji
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2016
June 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
-
1410 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
8,900 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
256.0
609.1
Memory type
HBM
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
80 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
3.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
2,039 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.3
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A