Radeon Instinct MI300X vs ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameCypressAqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 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 cores160019456
Core clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate68.002,554
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs32no data
TMUs801216
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 2.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5HBM3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB192 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0N/A
OpenGL4.4N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 6 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 192 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 750 Watt

ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 has 228.9% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
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