NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (21W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

13296 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro NVS 290

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +155968%

45.26 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 290

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Nov 2021

Quadro NVS

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128GB

DDR2

Memory Type

HBM2e

64bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

208

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

13312

8

TMUs

832

4

ROPs

0

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

16 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Board Design

21W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Aldebaran

-

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

Tesla

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

127 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

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