GeForce 7950 GX2 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison

GeForce 7950 GX2

Radeon Instinct MI50

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

G71

Vega 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2006

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

Core clock speed

500 MHz

1200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

13,230 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.00

419.0

Memory type

GDDR3

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

1.02 TB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3