Radeon Instinct MI210 vs R5 (Bristol Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking838not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.76no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeAldebaran
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)December 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 cores3846656
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistors3100 Million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data707.2
Floating-point processing powerno data22.63 TFLOPS
TMUsno data416

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data64 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,638 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 300 Watt

R5 (Bristol Ridge) has 2400% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI210, on the other hand, has a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon Instinct MI210. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI210 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI210
Radeon Instinct MI210

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