Radeon Instinct MI50 vs ATI Mobility HD 2400 XT Mac Edition
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | GCN 5.1 (2018−2022) |
| GPU code name | M74 | Vega 20 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 28 June 2007 (18 years ago) | 18 November 2018 (6 years ago) |
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 | 40 | 3840 |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1746 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 180 million | 13,230 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 300 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 2.600 | 419.0 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.052 TFLOPS | 13.41 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 4 | 64 |
| TMUs | 4 | 240 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 960 KB |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | 4 MB |
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 1.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 267 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 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 | GDDR3 | HBM2 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 4096 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | 1.02 TB/s |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 6.7 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 28 June 2007 | 18 November 2018 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | 16 GB |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 7 nm |
Instinct MI50 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition and Radeon Instinct MI50. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation one.
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