AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	18 November 2018 vs 31 January 2012
Core clock speed	1200 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Around 62% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 300 Watt
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega 20	Tahiti
Launch date	18 November 2018	31 January 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2,842 gflops
Pipelines		1536
Texture fill rate		88.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5