AMD Radeon Instinct MI210 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Aldebaran Tahiti
GPU variant Aldebaran Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)
Architecture CDNA 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 6 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 58,200 million 4,313 million
Die size unknown 352 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 2021 Oct 8th, 2013
Generation Radeon Instinct Volcanic Islands
Production Active End-of-life
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Launch price 299 USD
Reviews 105 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock 1000 MHz 850 MHz
Boost clock 1700 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory clock 1600 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 64 GB 3 GB
Memory type HBM2e GDDR5
Memory bus width 4096 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 1,638 GB/s 288.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 6656 2048
TMUs 416 128
ROPs 0 32
Compute units 104 32
gpu.details.mcm 1
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 16 MB 768 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 0 MPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 707.2 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 181.0 TFLOPS (8:1)
FP32 (float) performance 22.63 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 22.63 TFLOPS (1:1) 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 109 mm 4.3 inches
TDP 300 W 250 W
Suggested PSU 700 W 600 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
Board number C386

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.1

Other Features

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