CDNA 2
AMD Instinct MI250X
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4
The AMD Instinct MI250X is AMD's CDNA 2 data center GPU.
Volta
NVIDIA V100 32GB
wins
1
The V100 was NVIDIA's flagship AI GPU before the A100.
Performance comparison
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AMD Instinct MI250X
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NVIDIA V100 32GB
FP16 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
VRAM
TDP (lower=better)
TFLOPS/watt
GB/s per watt
Full specification table
| Spec | AMD Instinct MI250X | NVIDIA V100 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | CDNA 2 | Volta |
| VRAM | 128 GB HBM2e | 32 GB HBM2 |
| VRAM type | HBM2e | HBM2 |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,277 GB/s | 900 GB/s |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 383 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 560 W | 300 W |
| TFLOPS/watt | 0.68 T/W | 0.42 T/W |
| GB/s per watt | 5.85 GB/s/W | 3.00 GB/s/W |
| NVLink | No | Yes |
| Release year | 2021 | 2018 |
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Power efficiency analysis
TFLOPS/watt and GB/s/watt — critical for data center TCO
AMD Instinct MI250X
NVIDIA V100 32GB
TFLOPS/watt measures compute efficiency — how much AI throughput you get per watt of power consumed. For data centers with PUE of 1.2–1.5, a 10% improvement in TFLOPS/watt translates directly to lower electricity costs and cooling requirements. GB/s/watt measures memory bandwidth efficiency, which is the binding constraint for memory-bound LLM inference workloads.
When to choose each GPU
Choose AMD Instinct MI250X for:
- HPC workloads
- Large model inference
- AMD ROCm deployments
Weaknesses / Limitations
- Older CDNA 2 architecture — lower FP16 TFLOPS than MI300X or H100
- ROCm software ecosystem less mature than CUDA
- 560W TDP — high power draw for its performance tier
Choose NVIDIA V100 32GB for:
- Legacy ML training
- Budget HPC
- Mature framework support
Weaknesses / Limitations
- Volta architecture — significantly lower TFLOPS than A100 or H100
- 32 GB VRAM ceiling limits modern LLM workloads
- No BF16 support — less efficient for modern transformer training
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