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 rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCDNA 1.0 (2020)
GPU code nameArcturus
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date16 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 cores7680of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1000 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1502 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors50,000 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate721.0of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power23.07 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs64of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs480of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache1.9 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache8 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeHBM2
Maximum RAM amount32 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width4096 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1200 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
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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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon Instinct MI100, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectXN/A
Shader ModelN/A
OpenGLN/Aof 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL2.1
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Instinct MI100. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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