AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 512MB VRAM Quadro Plex 1000 Model II 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 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 33.60GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 640W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Jul 2008
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro Plex
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
525 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
33.60GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
-
256
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.520 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.28 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
640W
450 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
G70
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
333 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
3.0
