AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250X and 8GB VRAM Quadro RTX 4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1700MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 416.0GB/s)

11776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250X +572%

47.87 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 4000

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250X

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Quadro RTX 4000

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Nov 2018

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1005 MHz

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

8192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

416.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

220

Compute Units

-

14080

Shading Units

2304

880

TMUs

144

0

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

16 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

1496 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

383.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.24 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

47.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

TU104

Aldebaran XT

GPU Variant

TU104-850-A1

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

Unknown

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

160W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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