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