AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4000

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 NVIDIA Quadro K4000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 and 3GB VRAM Quadro K4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (128GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 134.8GB/s)

12544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI250 +3538%

45.26 TFLOPS

Quadro K4000

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250

VS

Quadro K4000

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1600 MHz

Memory Clock

1404 MHz

Memory

128GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

8192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

3277GB/s

Bandwidth

134.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

208

Compute Units

-

13312

Shading Units

768

832

TMUs

64

0

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

16 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.96 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

362.1 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

45.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

45.26 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Aldebaran

GPU Name

GK106

Aldebaran

GPU Variant

-

CDNA 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

58.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

Unknown

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

80W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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