Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Tesla S2050

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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
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameGF100Aldebaran
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)8 November 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$11,999 no data

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 cores44814080
Core clock speed574 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)900 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate32.141,496
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs48no data
TMUs56880

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount3 GB128 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed773 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth148.4 GB/s3,277 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 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.1N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 900 Watt 500 Watt

Instinct MI250X has an age advantage of 10 years, a 4166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 80% lower power consumption.

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