AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 NVIDIA Quadro K420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 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 1GB)

3648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro K420 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51TB/s vs 1.02TB/s)

Lower TDP (41W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI50 +3891%

13.41 TFLOPS

Quadro K420

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI50

VS

Quadro K420

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1200 MHz

Base Clock

-

1746 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.02TB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

192

240

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

111.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.504 GPixel/s

419.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.02 GTexel/s

26.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.41 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.4 GFLOPS

6.705 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GK107

Vega 20 GLXT

GPU Variant

GK107-301-A2

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

41W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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