AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 1800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

4032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (59W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +4554%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 1800

0.176 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro FX 1800

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2009

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

4096

Shading Units

64

256

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

176.0 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

59W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G94

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

G94 GL-U

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

240 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

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