NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 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 FX 5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro FX 5600

0.346 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8 +2267%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 5600

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Radeon Instinct MI8

Graphics Card

Mar 2007

Release Date

Dec 2016

Quadro FX

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

128

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

Fiji

G80-875-A2

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.0

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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