Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Instinct MI25

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking391not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.95no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameVega 10Aldebaran
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date27 June 2017 (7 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 cores409613312
Core clock speed1400 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate384.01,414
Floating-point processing power12.29 TFLOPS45.26 TFLOPS
ROPs64no data
TMUs256832

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
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount16 GB128 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed852 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth436.2 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.

DirectX12 (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.4N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.125N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 June 2017 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 500 Watt

Instinct MI25 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI25 and Radeon Instinct MI250. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI25
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