AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 160M 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 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

4088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +35517%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 160M

0.023 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro NVS 160M

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Aug 2008

Radeon Instinct

Generation

NVS Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

64bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

4096

Shading Units

8

256

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.320 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.320 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.20 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

12W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G98

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

NB9M-GS

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

86 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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