Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Quadro P4000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking264not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.02no data
Power efficiency14.37no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameGP104Aldebaran
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date11 January 2017 (7 years ago)8 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$819.61 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores179213312
Core clock speed1227 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate137.41,414
Floating-point processing power4.398 TFLOPS45.26 TFLOPS
ROPs64no data
TMUs112832

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth192 GB/s3,277 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Display Port1.4no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-
3D Stereo+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12N/A
Shader Model6.4N/A
OpenGL4.5N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 500 Watt

P4000 Mobile has 400% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 166.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P4000 Mobile and Radeon Instinct MI250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P4000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Instinct MI250 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Mobile
Quadro P4000 Mobile
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250
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