AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 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 MI100 's Advantages
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 115% (3230MHz vs 1502MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI100
23.07 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI50
+14%
26.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2020
Release Date
May 2025
Radeon Instinct
Generation
Navi IV
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
1502 MHz
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
120
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
7680
Shading Units
2048
480
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
96.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
721.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
184.6 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
23.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
11.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Arcturus
GPU Name
Navi 44
Arcturus XL
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
CDNA 1.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
4 nm
25.6 billion
Transistors
Unknown
750 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.8
