AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 221% (3230MHz vs 1005MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 400W)
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+90%
26.46 TFLOPS
GRID A100A
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
May 2020
Navi IV
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
108
2048
Shading Units
6912
128
TMUs
432
64
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
32
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
400W
450 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GA100
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
7 nm
Unknown
Transistors
54.2 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.8
Shader Model
N/A
