Radeon Instinct MI210 vs R5 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameSpectre SLAldebaran
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)December 2021 (2 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 cores2566656
Core clock speed497 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate7.952707.2
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS22.63 TFLOPS
ROPs4no data
TMUs16416

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-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 typeSystem SharedHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,638 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)N/A
Shader Model6.0N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 300 Watt

R5 Graphics has 1900% lower power consumption.

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

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and Radeon Instinct MI210. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI210 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
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