ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe
Graphics Processor
| GPU model | R250 | GA100 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Rage 7 | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Manufacturing process | 150 nm | 7 nm |
| Number of transistors | 60 million | 54,200 million |
| Die size | 68 mm² | 826 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Release date | Never Released | Jun 22nd, 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | Radeon R200 | Tesla |
| Production | End-of-life | Active |
| Interface | AGP 4x | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Predecessor | Radeon R100 | — |
| Successor | Radeon R300 | — |
Clocks
| GPU clock | 300 MHz | 1410 MHz |
|---|---|---|
| Memory clock | 300 MHz 600 Mbps effective | 1215 MHz 2.4 Gbps effective |
| Base clock | — | 765 MHz |
| Boost clock | — | 1410 MHz |
Memory Configuration
| Memory size | 128 MB | 40 GB |
|---|---|---|
| Memory type | DDR | HBM2E |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | 5120 bit |
| Bandwidth | 9.600 GB/s | 1,555 GB/s |
Render Configuration
| Pixel shaders | 4 | — |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex shaders | 2 | — |
| TMUs | 8 | 432 |
| ROPs | 4 | 160 |
| Shading units | — | 6912 |
| SM count | — | 108 |
| Tensor cores | — | 432 |
| Cache L1 | — | 192 KB (per SM) |
| Cache L2 | — | 40 MB |
Performance
| Pixel rate | 1.200 GPixel/s | 225.6 GPixel/s |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex rate | 150.0 MVertices/s | — |
| Texture rate | 2.400 GTexel/s | 609.1 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) performance | — | 77.97 TFLOPS (4:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | — | 19.49 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | — | 9.746 TFLOPS (1:2) |
Dimensions & Outputs
| Slot width | Single-slot | Dual-slot |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 25 W | 250 W |
| Suggested PSU | 200 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video | No outputs |
| Power connectors | None | 8-pin EPS |
| Length | — | 267 mm 10.5 inches |
| Board number | — | P1001 SKU 200 |
API Support & Features
| DirectX | 8.1 | — |
|---|---|---|
| OpenGL | 1.4 | — |
| OpenCL | — | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | — | — |
| Pixel shader | 1.4 | — |
| Vertex shader | 1.1 | — |
| CUDA | — | 8.0 |
| Shader model | — | — |
