AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA Tesla K40c
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 12GB VRAM Tesla K40c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 269% (3230MHz vs 876MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 245W)
NVIDIA Tesla K40c 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
832 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+424%
26.46 TFLOPS
Tesla K40c
5.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Oct 2013
Navi IV
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
745 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
876 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
2880
128
TMUs
240
64
ROPs
48
-
-
-
32
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
52.56 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
210.2 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.046 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.682 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
245W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GK180
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
GK180-890-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
7.08 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.5
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
