Radeon Instinct MI300X vs GeForce GTX 860M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking399not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.12no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAqua Vanjaram
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date12 March 2014 (10 years ago)6 December 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 cores128019456
Core clock speed1029 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors2x 1870 Million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2,554
Floating-point processing powerno data81.72 TFLOPS
TMUsno data1216
Tensor Coresno data1216

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno dataOAM Module
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5HBM3
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GB192 GB
Memory bus width2x 128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data5,171 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2014 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 750 Watt

GTX 860M SLI has 525% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 860M SLI and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 860M SLI is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M SLI
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AMD Radeon Instinct MI300X
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