Radeon Instinct MI300X vs RX 6950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking17not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation27.12no data
Power efficiency15.19no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21Aqua Vanjaram
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date10 May 2022 (2 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,099 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 cores512019456
Core clock speed1925 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed2324 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million153,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)335 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate743.72,554
Floating-point processing power23.8 TFLOPS81.72 TFLOPS
ROPs128no data
TMUs3201216
Tensor Coresno data1216
Ray Tracing Cores80no 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 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slotOAM Module
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR6HBM3
Maximum RAM amount16 GB192 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2525 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/s5,171 GB/s
Shared memory--

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, 2x 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


Recency 10 May 2022 6 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 192 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 335 Watt 750 Watt

RX 6950 XT has 123.9% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI300X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6950 XT and Radeon Instinct MI300X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6950 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI300X is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
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