AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 8GB VRAM Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 416.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1380MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (80W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +15%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q

7.066 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

May 2019

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

416.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

4096

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.32 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

220.8 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.13 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.066 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

220.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

TU104

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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