Radeon Instinct MI100 vs RX 5500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.21no data
Power efficiency12.49no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)CDNA 1.0 (2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Arcturus
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date12 December 2019 (5 years ago)16 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores14087680
Core clock speed1607 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1502 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million50,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate162.4721.0
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS23.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs88480

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length180 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s1,229 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.5N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2019 16 November 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 300 Watt

RX 5500 XT has 130.8% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon Instinct MI100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
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