Radeon Instinct MI250X vs Matrox Millennium G450 x4 MMS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureG400 (1999−2002)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameCondorAldebaran
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date19 June 2002 (22 years ago)8 November 2021 (2 years 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 coresno data14080
Core clock speed125 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors10 million58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data500 Watt
Texture fill rate0.251,496
Floating-point processing powerno data47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs2no data
TMUs2880

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Length165 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-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 typeDDRHBM2e
Maximum RAM amount32 MB128 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.0N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLNoneN/A
OpenCLNone3.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 June 2002 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 128 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 6 nm

Instinct MI250X has an age advantage of 19 years, a 409500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox Millennium G450 x4 MMS and Radeon Instinct MI250X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox Millennium G450 x4 MMS is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI250X is a workstation one.


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Matrox Millennium G450 x4 MMS
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AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X
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