Radeon Instinct MI100: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon Instinct MI100 sales 16 November 2020. This is a CDNA 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,229 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Instinct MI100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | CDNA 1.0 (2020) | |
| GPU code name | Arcturus | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 16 November 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon Instinct MI100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Instinct MI100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 7680 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1502 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 50,000 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 721.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 23.07 TFLOPS | of 115.8 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 480 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Instinct MI100 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Instinct MI100: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,229 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Instinct MI100. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon Instinct MI100, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Instinct MI100 is RTX A4500.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon Instinct MI100 according to our statistics.
