AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA GRID K520Q

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 NVIDIA GRID K520Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 4GB VRAM GRID K520Q 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 4 months late

Boost Clock1746MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID K520Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0TB/s vs 1.02TB/s)

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI50 +485%

13.41 TFLOPS

GRID K520Q

2.289 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI50

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GRID K520Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Instinct

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1200 MHz

Base Clock

-

1746 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.02TB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1536

240

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

111.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.84 GPixel/s

419.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.36 GTexel/s

26.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.41 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.289 TFLOPS

6.705 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 20 GLXT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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