AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

VS

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 290 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 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (21W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +28148%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 290

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro NVS 290

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Oct 2007

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM

Memory Type

DDR2

4096bit

Memory Bus

64bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

4096

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

21W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G86

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

127 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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