Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon Instinct MI100

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCDNA 1.0 (2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameArcturusTU104B
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date16 November 2020 (3 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores76803072
Core clock speed1000 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1502 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors50,000 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate721.0296.6
Floating-point processing power23.07 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs480192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/s448.0 GB/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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.5
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL2.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 November 2020 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 110 Watt

Instinct MI100 has an age advantage of 5 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has 172.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI100 and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
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