RTX A5000 vs Radeon Instinct MI50

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated36
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.67
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20GA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores38408192
Core clock speed1200 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate419.0433.9
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPS27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs240256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB24 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s768.0 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 Connectors1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 230 Watt

Instinct MI50 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A5000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 30.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI50 and RTX A5000. We've got no test results to judge.


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