Radeon Instinct MI325X vs GeForce RTX 5090

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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
ArchitectureBlackwell 2.0 (2025)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameGB202Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date20252024 (recently)

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 cores2176019456
Core clock speed2235 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed2520 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistorsno data153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology0 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate1,7142,554
Floating-point processing power109.7 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs192no data
TMUs6801216
Tensor Cores6801216
Ray Tracing Cores170no 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 5.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length304 mmno data
Width3-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR7HBM3e
Maximum RAM amount32 GB288 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.42 TB/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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

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
CUDA10.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 288 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 750 Watt

RTX 5090 has 50% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI325X, on the other hand, has a 800% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 5090 and Radeon Instinct MI325X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 5090 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI325X is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
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AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X
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