Radeon Instinct MI50 vs Quadro M4000

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	314	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.46	no data
Power efficiency	9.96	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GM204	Vega 20
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	18 November 2018 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$791	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1664	3840
Core clock speed	773 MHz	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1746 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	80.39	419.0
Floating-point processing power	2.573 TFLOPS	13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	104	240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 192 GB/s	1.02 TB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.2	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 June 2015	18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	300 Watt

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