NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 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 8000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1700MHz)

Lower TDP (260W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (128GB vs 48GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro RTX 8000

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +177%

45.26 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 8000

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Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Aug 2018

Release Date

Nov 2021

Quadro

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

128GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

72

SM Count

-

Compute Units

208

4608

Shading Units

13312

288

TMUs

832

96

ROPs

0

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

Aldebaran

TU102-875-A1

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

Turing

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

6 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

260W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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