AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 24GB VRAM RTX A5000 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 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (3230MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 230W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
26.46 TFLOPS
RTX A5000
+4%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Apr 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
1170 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
64
2048
Shading Units
8192
128
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
32
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
230W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GA102
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
4 nm
Process Size
8 nm
Unknown
Transistors
28.3 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
628 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
