Radeon Instinct MI325X vs RTX A2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking141not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation85.79no data
Power efficiency34.82no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameGA106Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 August 2021 (3 years ago)2024 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores332819456
Core clock speed562 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate124.82,554
Floating-point processing power7.987 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs48no data
TMUs1041216
Tensor Cores1041216
Ray Tracing Cores26no data

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 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length167 mmno data
Width2-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6HBM3e
Maximum RAM amount6 GB288 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s10.3 TB/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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)N/A
Shader Model6.8N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 288 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 750 Watt

RTX A2000 has 971.4% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI325X, on the other hand, has a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 and Radeon Instinct MI325X. We've got no test results to judge.


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