Radeon Instinct MI300X vs ATI X1700 SE

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
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameRV560Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date30 November 2007 (16 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a 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 coresno data19456
Core clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors330 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0002,554
Floating-point processing powerno data81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs8no data
TMUs81216
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Width1-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 typeDDR2HBM3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB192 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s5,171 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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)N/A
Shader Model3.0N/A
OpenGL2.0N/A
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 November 2007 6 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 192 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 750 Watt

ATI X1700 SE has 1400% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1700 SE and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1700 SE is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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