NVIDIA Quadro 400 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

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NVIDIA Quadro 400 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)

14032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro 400

0.108 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250X +44224%

47.87 TFLOPS

Quadro 400

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Nov 2021

Quadro

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

770 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

64bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

12.32GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

220

48

Shading Units

14080

16

TMUs

880

8

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

1496 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

383.0 TFLOPS

108.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.87 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

47.87 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Aldebaran

GT216 GL

GPU Variant

Aldebaran XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

32W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

N/A

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