Radeon Instinct MI250X vs ATI HD 5570

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1043not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.18no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameRedwoodAldebaran
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date9 February 2010 (14 years ago)8 November 2021 (3 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 cores40014080
Core clock speed650 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors627 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate13.001,496
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs8no data
TMUs20880

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length165 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeGDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s3,277 GB/s

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, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0N/A
OpenGL4.4N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 February 2010 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 39 Watt 500 Watt

ATI HD 5570 has 1182.1% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5570 and Radeon Instinct MI250X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5570 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI250X is a workstation one.


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