AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs NVIDIA GRID K100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 256MB VRAM GRID K100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock3230MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
1856 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K100 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+8016%
26.46 TFLOPS
GRID K100
0.326 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Jun 2013
Navi IV
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
-
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
192
128
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
32
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
130W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
GK107
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.27 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
