Radeon Instinct MI300 vs ATI 3D Rage II

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
ArchitectureMach (1992−1997)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameMach64 GT-BAqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date5 September 1996 (28 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$269 no data

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 speed60 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1700 MHz
Number of transistors5 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology500 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data600 Watt
Texture fill rate0.061,496
Floating-point processing powerno data47.87 TFLOPS
ROPs1no data
TMUs1880
Tensor Coresno data880

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 5.0 x16
Lengthno data267 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 typeSDRHBM3
Maximum RAM amount4 MB128 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed83 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth664.0 MB/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 Connectors1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX5.0N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLN/AN/A
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 1996 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 128 GB
Chip lithography 500 nm 5 nm

Instinct MI300 has an age advantage of 26 years, a 3276700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 9900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between 3D Rage II and Radeon Instinct MI300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that 3D Rage II is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI300 is a workstation one.


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ATI 3D Rage II
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AMD Radeon Instinct MI300
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