AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA Quadro 500M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

4000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +2945%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro 500M

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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Quadro 500M

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Feb 2011

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM

Memory Type

DDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

96

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GF108

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

N12M-Q3

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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