AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 8GB VRAM Quadro M5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 211.6GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro M5000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1038MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+92%
8.192 TFLOPS
Quadro M5000
4.252 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Jun 2015
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
861 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.6GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
2048
256
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
66.43 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
132.9 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.252 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
132.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GM204
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
GM204-875-A1
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
