AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 and NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB 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: 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).

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1746 MHz vs 1380 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1752 MHz

Launch date	18 November 2018 vs 27 March 2018
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1752 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1230 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt

Core clock speed	1230 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB

Name	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark		8260
PassMark - G2D Mark		327
Geekbench - OpenCL		163637
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		592.008
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		46.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		271.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2169.759
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3521
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9969
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3521
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	Volta
Code name	Vega 20	GV100
Launch date	18 November 2018	27 March 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	155
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1746 MHz	1380 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	21,100 million
Floating-point performance		14,131 gflops
Pipelines		5120
Texture fill rate		441.6 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
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	1752 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		32 GB
Memory bandwidth		897.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		4096 Bit
Memory type		HBM2