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.

 

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 9392
PassMark - G2D Mark 789
Geekbench - OpenCL 45814
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 4757

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 276
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

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