Radeon Instinct MI300X vs R5 (Bristol Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking839not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.72no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeAqua Vanjaram
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2016 (8 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 cores38419456
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors3100 Million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno dataOAM Module
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataHBM3
Maximum RAM amountno data192 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2525 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 750 Watt

R5 (Bristol Ridge) has 6150% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
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AMD Radeon Instinct MI300X
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