AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 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 VII

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	7 February 2019 vs 18 November 2018
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz vs 1746 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
PassMark - G3D Mark	16398
PassMark - G2D Mark	792
Geekbench - OpenCL	91678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2304

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 5.1
Code name	Vega 20	Vega 20
Design	AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation	5th Gen
Launch date	7 February 2019	18 November 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	237	not rated
Price now	$699.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz	1746 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3840
Pixel fill rate	115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors	3840
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	13,230 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	305 mm	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore