Radeon Instinct MI50 vs GeForce RTX 2060

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking129not rated
Place by popularity20not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation40.85no data
Power efficiency15.98no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU106Vega 20
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2019 (5 years ago)18 November 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 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 cores19203840
Core clock speed1365 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1680 MHz1746 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate201.6419.0
Floating-point processing power6.451 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs120240
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no data

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length229 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 amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s1.02 TB/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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2019 18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 2060 has an age advantage of 1 month, and 87.5% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI50, on the other hand, has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 and Radeon Instinct MI50. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation one.


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