NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1700MHz vs 1350MHz)
More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)
10240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q
8.294 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI250
+445%
45.26 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2019
Release Date
Nov 2021
Quadro Mobile
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
600 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
208
48
SM Count
-
3072
Shading Units
13312
192
TMUs
832
64
ROPs
0
384
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
86.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
362.1 TFLOPS
8.294 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
45.26 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.26 TFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
500W
-
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Aldebaran
-
GPU Variant
Aldebaran
Turing
Architecture
CDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
6 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
58.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
