Radeon HD 8970 OEM and Radeon Instinct MI300X - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Radeon Instinct MI300X

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

CDNA 3.0

GPU code name

Tahiti

Aqua Vanjaram

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

December 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

153,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

19456

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

750 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

2,554

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

192 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

5,171 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A