AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 169% (3230MHz vs 1200MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+231%
26.46 TFLOPS
RTX A2000
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Aug 2021
Navi IV
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
562 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
26
2048
Shading Units
3328
128
TMUs
104
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
104
32
RT Cores
26
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
70W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GA106
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
GA106-850-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
4 nm
Process Size
8 nm
Unknown
Transistors
12 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
