AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Nov 2018
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1746 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
512bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
1.02TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
60
Shading Units
2816
3840
TMUs
176
240
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
RT Cores
—
32
L3 Cache
—
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
111.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
419.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
13.41 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
6.705 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
26.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Vega 20
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Vega 20 GLXT
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 5.1
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
13.23 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
331 mm²
Board Design
TDP
290W
300W
Suggested PSU
600 W
700 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.