Radeon Instinct MI50 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI50

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

Vega 20

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

419.0

1,414

Memory type

HBM2

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1.02 TB/s

3,277 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

N/A