Radeon RX 470 and Radeon Instinct MI250 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Radeon Instinct MI250

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

13312

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

1,414

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

FreeSync