AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 Intel Arctic Sound 2T

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages

Boost Clock1746MHz

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

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

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI50

13.41 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T +3%

13.82 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI50

VS

Arctic Sound 2T

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1200 MHz

Base Clock

-

1746 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

HBM2e

4096bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

1.02TB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

7680

240

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

120

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

111.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

419.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

216.0 GTexel/s

26.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.65 TFLOPS

13.41 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.82 TFLOPS

6.705 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.456 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

Vega 20 GLXT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

7 nm

Process Size

10 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

8 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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