Radeon Instinct MI50: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Instinct MI50 sales 18 November 2018. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 5.1 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,024 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Instinct MI50: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 5.1 (2018−2021) | |
| GPU code name | Vega 20 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 18 November 2018 (5 years ago) | |
| Current price | $230 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon Instinct MI50's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Instinct MI50's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3840 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1746 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 13,230 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 419.0 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Instinct MI50 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Instinct MI50: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,024 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Instinct MI50. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon Instinct MI50, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Instinct MI50 is GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon Instinct MI50 according to our statistics.
