AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 6GB VRAM Quadro Plex 7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 600W)
NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+596%
8.192 TFLOPS
Quadro Plex 7000
1.176 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Jul 2011
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro Plex
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
4096
Shading Units
512
256
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.37 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.74 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1176 GFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
587.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
600W
450 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DVI
2x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GF110
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
3 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
