AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 and AMD Radeon RX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

AMD Radeon RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1746 MHz vs 1545 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm

Boost clock speed	1746 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 300 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Core clock speed	1469 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

Name	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G3D Mark		9374
PassMark - G2D Mark		789
Geekbench - OpenCL		45591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1081

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 4.0
Code name	Vega 20	Polaris 30
Launch date	18 November 2018	15 November 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	280
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		49.54 GP/s
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture fill rate		222.48 GTexel/s
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	8000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		256 GB/s
Memory bus width		256 bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support