Quadro FX 580 vs Radeon Instinct MI250
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 500W)
Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1700MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
13280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Radeon Instinct MI250
+62761%
45260
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Nov 2021
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
208
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
13312
16
TMUs
832
8
ROPs
0
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
362.1 TFLOPS
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
45.26 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
45.26 TFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Aldebaran
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Tesla
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
N/A
3.3
OpenGL
N/A
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
N/A
