Radeon Instinct MI50 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	330	not rated
Place by popularity	5	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	14.02	no data
Power efficiency	14.97	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GP107	Vega 20
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	25 October 2016 (8 years ago)	18 November 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$139	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	3840
Core clock speed	1291 MHz	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1392 MHz	1746 MHz
Number of transistors	3,300 million	13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	66.82	419.0
Floating-point processing power	2.138 TFLOPS	13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	64
TMUs	48	240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	145 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	1.02 TB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready	+	no data
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 October 2016	18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	300 Watt

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