NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (42W vs 175W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
0.067 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
+12126%
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
650 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
20.80GB/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
4.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
8.320 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
66.56 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
42W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Fiji
-
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
169 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
