Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 rated30
Place by popularitynot in top-10040
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data68.04
Power efficiencyno data16.46
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20Navi 32
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)25 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

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 MHz1295 MHz
Boost clock speed1746 MHz2430 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt263 Watt
Texture fill rate419.0583.2
Floating-point processing power13.41 TFLOPS37.32 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs240240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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-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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2438 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/s624.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.2
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2018 25 August 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 263 Watt

RX 7800 XT has an age advantage of 4 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 14.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI50 and Radeon RX 7800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI50 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 7800 XT is a desktop one.


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