Radeon Instinct MI300X vs HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiAqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date31 January 2012 (12 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 cores153619456
Core clock speed925 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate88.802,554
Floating-point processing power2.842 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs32no data
TMUs961216
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 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 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 amount3 GB192 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)N/A
Shader Model5.1N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 6 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 192 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 750 Watt

HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 has 305.4% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
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