AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 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 9 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +2120%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

0.369 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2007

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

4096

Shading Units

128

256

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.40 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

368.6 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G80

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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