Quadro RTX 4000 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 4000

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

TU104

Aldebaran

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1005 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

1,414

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

13000 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

416.0 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Display Connectors

3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

N/A

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A