Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Quadro CX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking833not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.14no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameGT200BAldebaran
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)8 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 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 cores19214080
Core clock speed602 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate38.531,496
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPS47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs24no data
TMUs64880

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 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 typeGDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB128 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s3,277 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)N/A
Shader Model4.0N/A
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 128 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 500 Watt

Quadro CX has 233.3% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 8433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro CX and Radeon Instinct MI250X. We've got no test results to judge.


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