Radeon Instinct MI50 vs GeForce RTX 3080

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking26not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.30no data
Power efficiency14.02no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA102Vega 20
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)18 November 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 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 cores87043840
Core clock speed1440 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHz1746 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate465.1419.0
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs272240
Tensor Cores272no data
Ray Tracing Cores68no 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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length285 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-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 typeGDDR6XHBM2
Maximum RAM amount10 GB16 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth760.3 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 3080 has an age advantage of 1 year.

Instinct MI50, on the other hand, has a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon Instinct MI50. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation one.


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