AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4000

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA Quadro K4000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 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 MI8 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.8GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +558%

8.192 TFLOPS

Quadro K4000

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

Quadro K4000

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1404 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

768

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.96 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GK106

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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