AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 288GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI325X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (500W vs 1000W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2100MHz
More VRAM (288GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.3TB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
16640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI325X
+1325%
81.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Oct 2024
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2100 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2525 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
288GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM3e
512bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
10.3TB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
304
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
19456
176
TMUs
1216
64
ROPs
0
-
Tensor Cores
1216
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
L3 Cache
256 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2553.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
653.7 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
81.72 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
81.72 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
1000W
900 W
Suggested PSU
1400 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Aqua Vanjaram
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
CDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
153 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
1017 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
N/A
