AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 317.4GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1114MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI8
+19%
8.192 TFLOPS
Quadro M6000
6.844 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2016
Release Date
Mar 2015
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
988 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
3072
256
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
GM200
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
8 billion
596 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
