Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Radeon Instinct MI50

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Vega 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2012

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

Core clock speed

800 MHz

1200 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,229 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

13,230 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

85 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

419.0

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

1.02 TB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3