Radeon Instinct MI50 vs Pro WX 8200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking146not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation24.97no data
Power efficiency10.37no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 10Vega 20
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)18 November 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores35843840
Core clock speed1200 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1746 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate336.0419.0
Floating-point processing power10.75 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs224240

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 connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s1.02 TB/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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x 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 Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.1.1251.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 300 Watt

Pro WX 8200 has 30.4% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI50, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 8200 and Radeon Instinct MI50. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
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