AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1502MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

7672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI100 +104763%

23.07 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100

VS

Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Nov 2020

Release Date

Jan 2009

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1502 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

64bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

120

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

7680

Shading Units

8

480

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

96.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

721.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

184.6 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

11.54 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

40W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Arcturus

GPU Name

G98

Arcturus XL

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

25.6 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

750 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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