Radeon Pro V520 vs Instinct MI50

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	217
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	10.03
Architecture	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 20	Navi 12
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 November 2018 (7 years ago)	1 December 2020 (5 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	3840	2304
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz	1600 MHz
Number of transistors	13,230 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	419.0	230.4
Floating-point processing power	13.41 TFLOPS	7.373 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	240	144
L1 Cache	960 KB	no data
L2 Cache	4 MB	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 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 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	HBM2	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	1.02 TB/s	512.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

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

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1	2.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.2

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 November 2018	1 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	225 Watt