
Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon Instinct MI50
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Vega
Vega 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1746 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
13,230 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
419.0
Memory type
HBM2
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.3