AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2021
Apr 2013
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
950 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
128GB
3GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
8192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
220
32
Shading Units
14080
2048
TMUs
880
128
ROPs
0
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
16 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1496 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
383.0 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
47.87 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.87 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Aldebaran
Malta
GPU Variant
Aldebaran XT
Malta XT(215-0849026)
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
58.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
Unknown
365 mm²
Board Design
TDP
500W
375W
Suggested PSU
900 W
750 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
N/A
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.