AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro FX 3800 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +1673%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 3800

0.462 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro FX 3800

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

1024MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

4096

Shading Units

192

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

462.3 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.79 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

108W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GT200B

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

G200-835-B2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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