Data Center GPU Max 1550 vs Radeon Instinct MI100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCDNA 1.0 (2020)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameArcturusPonte Vecchio
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date16 November 2020 (3 years ago)10 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores768016384
Core clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1502 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistors50,000 million100,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate721.01,638
Floating-point processing power23.07 TFLOPS52.43 TFLOPS
ROPs64no data
TMUs4801024
Tensor Coresno data1024
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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 5.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount32 GB128 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
Shader ModelN/A6.6
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL2.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 November 2020 10 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 600 Watt

Instinct MI100 has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

Data Center GPU Max 1550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI100 and Data Center GPU Max 1550. We've got no test results to judge.


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