NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 4600 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 4600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (134W vs 175W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
4000 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4600
0.23 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI8
+3461%
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
4096
24
TMUs
256
24
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
96 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
230.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
134W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G80
GPU Name
Fiji
G80-850-A2
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.681 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
484 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1 (1.0)
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.0
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
