RTX 1000 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon Instinct MI250X

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCDNA 2.0 (2021)Ada Lovelace
GPU code nameAldebaranAD107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date8 November 2021 (2 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores140802560
Boost clock speed1700 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors58,200 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate1,496162.0

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon Instinct MI250X and RTX 1000 Mobile Ada Generation compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 GB6 GB
Memory bus width8192 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed3.2 GB/s16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth3,277 GB/s192.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDAno data8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 November 2021 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 128 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 35 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI250X and RTX 1000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI250X is a workstation card while RTX 1000 Mobile Ada Generation is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
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