Radeon Instinct MI250 vs R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1051not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameBeemaAldebaran
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 April 2014 (10 years ago)8 November 2021 (2 years ago)
Current priceno data$12340

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 cores12813312
Boost clock speed850 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,414

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) and Radeon Instinct MI250 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.

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data128 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data3.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data3,277 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 8 November 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) and Radeon Instinct MI250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI250 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
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