Radeon Instinct MI300 vs GeForce 820A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking995not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.58no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameGF117Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date17 March 2014 (10 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9614080
Core clock speed775 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors585 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate12.401,496
Floating-point processing power0.2976 TFLOPS47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs8no data
TMUs16880
Tensor Coresno data880

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3HBM3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s3,277 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.1N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2014 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 600 Watt

GeForce 820A has 3900% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 820A and Radeon Instinct MI300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 820A is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI300 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 820A
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