Radeon R9 280 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 280
Radeon Instinct MI50
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Vega 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
November 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
1746 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
13,230 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
419.0
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-