Radeon Instinct MI8 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison
Radeon Instinct MI8
Radeon Instinct MI50
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Fiji
Vega 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2016
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1746 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
8,900 million
13,230 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
256.0
419.0
Memory type
HBM
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3