Radeon Pro V520 vs Instinct MI50

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated174
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.69
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameVega 20Navi 12
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)1 December 2020 (4 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 cores38402304
Core clock speed1200 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate419.0230.4
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPS7.373 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs240144

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
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s512.0 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 mini-DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.2
Vulkan1.31.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 1 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 225 Watt

Instinct MI50 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Pro V520, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI50 and Radeon Pro V520. We've got no test results to judge.


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