Radeon RX 590 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

Radeon Instinct MI50

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

Vega 20

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1746 MHz

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

1200 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

13,230 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

419.0

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

1.02 TB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

FreeSync