AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI25

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

AMD Radeon Instinct MI25

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 1746 MHz vs 1500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1704 MHz

Launch date	18 November 2018 vs 27 June 2017
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1704 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI25

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Instinct MI25

Name	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon Instinct MI25
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6958
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6958
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1634
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1634
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1846
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1846
Geekbench - OpenCL		68562

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon Instinct MI25
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 5.0
Code name	Vega 20	Vega 10
Launch date	18 November 2018	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	not rated	562
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz	1500 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	12,500 million
Floating-point performance		12,288 gflops
Pipelines		4096
Texture fill rate		384.0 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
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	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1704 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory bandwidth		482.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		2048 Bit
Memory type		HBM2