AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 6GB VRAM Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1700MHz vs 1215MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

11392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +869%

45.26 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q

4.666 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

May 2019

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

600 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1215 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

8192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

208

Compute Units

-

13312

Shading Units

1920

832

TMUs

120

0

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.76 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.8 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.331 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.666 TFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

TU106

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

60W

900 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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