AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 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 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (42W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +12126%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

0.067 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Sep 2008

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

32

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.160 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.320 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

66.56 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G84

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

0.289 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

42W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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