NVIDIA GRID K2 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 12 years late
Boost Clock3230MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI50
+1055%
26.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
May 2025
GRID
Generation
Navi IV
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2220 MHz
-
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Navi 44
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
Kepler
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.2.175
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.8
