Radeon Instinct MI8 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI8

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

Fiji

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2016

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,192 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

8,900 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

256.0

1,414

Memory type

HBM

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A