Radeon Pro VII 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 rated161
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data15.86
Power efficiencyno data9.14
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 20Vega 20
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)13 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,899

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 cores38403840
Core clock speed1200 MHz1400 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate419.0408.0
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPS13.06 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs240240

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 mm305 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s1024 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 1.4a6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 13 May 2020
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 250 Watt

Pro VII has an age advantage of 1 year, and 20% lower power consumption.

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


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
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