AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI50 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 162% (3230MHz vs 1233MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Instinct MI50
+365%
26.46 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Dec 2016
Navi IV
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
2304
128
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
32
RT Cores
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
4 nm
Process Size
14 nm
Unknown
Transistors
5.7 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
