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Instinct MI355X vs A100 SXM 80GB
RANKED BY DENSE FP16/BF16 TENSOR TFLOPS PER CHIP
#1 VS #17
CHECKED 06 SEPT 2026
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Verdict
Instinct MI355X ranks #1 of 20 on Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip (2.5 PFLOPS); A100 SXM 80GB ranks #17 (312 TFLOPS).
Rank 01 of 20 · leads
Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip
2.5 PFLOPS
MakerAMD
Date2025
Verified04 Sept 2026
Evidence
AMD Instinct MI355X product page, per-GPU spec: "Peak Half Precision Matrix (FP16) Performance 2.5 PFLOPs" and "Peak bfloat16 (BF16) Matrix Performance 2.5 PFLOPs". Structured-sparsity counterparts on the same page are 5 PFLOPs and were not used. Launch date on the page: 12 June 2025. 288 GB HBM3E.Rank 17 of 20
Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip
312 TFLOPS
MakerNVIDIA
Date2020
Verified04 Sept 2026
Evidence
NVIDIA A100 product page, A100 80GB SXM column: FP16 Tensor Core 312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS* and BFLOAT16 Tensor Core 312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS*. Asterisk is "With sparsity". Dense figure used here is 312 TFLOPS. 80 GB HBM2e.Try another pair
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Source Vendor product pages and official spec documents (AMD Instinct MI355X / MI350X / MI325X / MI300X / MI300A / MI250X / MI250 / MI210; NVIDIA…
Last checked 06 Sept 2026