Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Quadro P4000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	264	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	8.03	no data
Power efficiency	14.36	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code name	GP104	Aldebaran
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	11 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.

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	1792	13312
Core clock speed	1227 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1228 MHz	1700 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	500 Watt
Texture fill rate	137.4	1,414
Floating-point processing power	4.398 TFLOPS	45.26 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	112	832

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 size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	2x 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 type	GDDR5	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	128 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	8192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	3,277 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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Display Port	1.4	no 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.

DirectX	12	N/A
Shader Model	6.4	N/A
OpenGL	4.5	N/A
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	6.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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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

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