Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4870

Radeon Instinct MI50

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

RV770

Vega 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

Core clock speed

750 MHz

1200 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

13,230 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

30.00

419.0

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

1.02 TB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3