
Radeon Instinct MI8 and XGI XG42 - video card comparison
Radeon Instinct MI8
XGI XG42
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Fiji
XG42
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2016
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
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Core clock speed
1000 MHz
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Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
8,900 million
25 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
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Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
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Texture fill rate
256.0
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Memory type
HBM
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
4096 Bit
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Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 (12_0)
8.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
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Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A