Radeon Instinct MI250 vs RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking580not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.76no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameVega RenoirAldebaran
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)8 November 2021 (2 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 cores38413312
Core clock speed400 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,414
Floating-point processing powerno data45.26 TFLOPS
TMUsno data832

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).

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 widthno data8192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3,277 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_1N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 8 November 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 500 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has 3233.3% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon Instinct MI250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI250 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI250
Radeon Instinct MI250

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