AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (42W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+12126%
8.192 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
0.067 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Sep 2008
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.80GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
4096
Shading Units
32
256
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.160 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.320 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
66.56 GFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
42W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
G84
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0
