NVIDIA Quadro 6000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

NVIDIA Quadro 6000

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 6000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 143.4GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro 6000

1.028 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8 +696%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro 6000

VS

Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

747 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

143.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

4096

56

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.07 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

32.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

1028 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

513.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

204W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Fiji

GF100-850-A3

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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