Quadro FX 580 vs Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 175W)
Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Radeon Instinct MI8
+11277%
8192
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
4096
16
TMUs
256
8
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Fiji
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
