NVIDIA A16 vs AMD Instinct MI210
How the NVIDIA A16 and AMD Instinct MI210 compare across memory, compute, power and form factor, with the stronger figure highlighted on each row. Vendor-specific figures (CUDA vs stream processors, Tensor vs matrix cores) are listed on their own rows.
| Specification |  AMPERE NVIDIA A16 View Product → | CDNA 2 AMD Instinct MI210 NVIDIA alternative: NVIDIA A100 80GB → |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Price | – | Not sold by NVNexus |
| Overview | ||
| Architecture | Ampere | AMD CDNA 2 |
| Memory | ||
| Memory | 64 GB GDDR6 ECC (4× 16 GB) | 64 GB HBM2e |
| Memory Bandwidth | 4× 232 GB/s | 1.6 TB/s |
| Memory Interface | – | 4096-bit |
| Compute | ||
| CUDA Cores | 5,120 (4× 1,280) | – |
| Stream Processors (AMD) | – | 6,656 (104 CUs) |
| Tensor Cores | 160 (4× 40) | – |
| Matrix Cores / AI Accelerators (AMD) | – | 416 |
| RT Cores / Ray Accelerators | 40 (4× 10) | – |
| FP32 | – | 45.3 TFLOPS (matrix) |
| FP64 Tensor | – | 45.3 TFLOPS (matrix) |
| FP16/BF16 Tensor | – | 181 TFLOPS |
| INT8 Tensor | – | 181 TOPS |
| Platform | ||
| Interface | PCIe Gen4 x16 | PCIe Gen4 x16 |
| NVLink / Infinity Fabric | – | Infinity Fabric bridges, 300 GB/s |
| TDP | 250W | 300W |
| Form Factor | Dual-slot, full-height, passive | Dual-slot PCIe, passive |
| GPUs per Board | 4 | – |
| Cooling | – | Passive (chassis airflow) |
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