Intel Arctic Sound-M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

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Intel Arctic Sound-M AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M and 16GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 1.02GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages

Boost Clock1746MHz

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound M +9%

14.75 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI50

13.41 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

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Radeon Instinct MI50

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

Data Center GPU

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1200 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1746 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

HBM2

4096bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

1.02TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

8192

Shading Units

3840

256

TMUs

240

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.7 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

419.0 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.82 TFLOPS

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.41 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.705 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arctic Sound

GPU Name

Vega 20

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GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT

Generation 12.5

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

300W

900 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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