Radeon Instinct MI50 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI50

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Vega 20

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

256

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

419.0

12.29

Memory type

HBM2

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2 GB/s

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.02 TB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.4

Vulkan

1.3

1.1.126