Radeon Instinct MI325X vs RX 6650 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking80not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation62.60no data
Power efficiency17.40no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 23Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date10 May 2022 (2 years ago)2024 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores204819456
Core clock speed2055 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed2635 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors11,060 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)176 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate337.32,554
Floating-point processing power10.79 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs64no data
TMUs1281216
Tensor Coresno data1216
Ray Tracing Cores32no 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 4.0 x8PCIe 5.0 x16
Width2-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR6HBM3e
Maximum RAM amount8 GB288 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed2190 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth280.3 GB/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 Model6.5N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 288 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 176 Watt 750 Watt

RX 6650 XT has 326.1% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI325X, on the other hand, has a 3500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6650 XT and Radeon Instinct MI325X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6650 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI325X is a workstation one.


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