AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 280.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation +134%

19.17 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

VS

RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Mar 2023

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro Ada

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

720 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

20GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

160bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

6144

256

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

124.8 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

299.5 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.17 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.17 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

AD104

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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