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AMD Instinct MI325X: The Complete Guide

Same compute as MI300X, a third more memory — built to out-fit NVIDIA’s H200 rather than out-compute it. Simple to expert, every number links to its source.

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AMD Instinct MI325X 10 sections · 2 levels 10 linked sources Checked September 2026
How to read this page. Each section starts Simple, then goes to a Deep dive: stop wherever you have what you need. The small numbers are sources: click one to open the original document. Where the maker has not published a figure -- a price, a die size, a factory address -- this page says so rather than estimate it.

1.At a glance

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MI325X is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s H200 — the same compute silicon as MI300X, with a third more memory. Announced 10 October 2024, it carries 256 GB of HBM3E memory 1.

Deep diveThe technical detail

AMD’s own comparison at launch, against NVIDIA’s H200: “1.8X more capacity and 1.3x more bandwidth”, plus “1.3X greater peak theoretical FP16 and FP8 compute performance” 1 — AMD’s own benchmark, aimed at a specific named competitor rather than a general claim.

2.Launch and history

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Large AI models are often limited less by how fast a chip can calculate and more by how much of the model can fit in memory at once. MI325X answers that specific problem: same compute units as MI300X, a lot more memory to hold bigger models on fewer chips.

Deep diveThe technical detail

One thing to flag plainly: AMD’s own roadmap release in June 2024 previewed MI325X at 288 GB of HBM3E memory and 6 TB/s of bandwidth 2, but the chip that actually shipped in October 2024 carries 256 GB 13 — a real AMD-to-AMD change between preview and shipping product. This page reports the shipping figure, 256 GB, as current, and notes the earlier 288 GB figure as a since-revised preview rather than silently picking one number.

3.What’s inside it

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The same CDNA 3 chiplet design as MI300X — 304 compute units, 153 billion transistors — with upgraded, higher-capacity memory stacks 34.

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AMD’s own MI325X product page lists 304 compute units and 19,456 stream processors, identical to MI300X 35. The 153-billion-transistor figure that AMD states on MI300X’s Hot Chips 2024 slide for the underlying die is repeated on MI325X’s own product page, consistent with both chips sharing the same compute silicon and differing mainly in the HBM3E stacks attached to it 43.

4.Full spec table

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304 compute units, 256 GB of HBM3E memory, up to 6.0 TB/s of memory bandwidth, a TDP of 1,000W peak 3.

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SpecAMD Instinct MI325X
Compute units304
Stream processors19,456
Transistors153 billion
Memory256 GB HBM3E, 8,192-bit
Memory bandwidth6.0 TB/s peak
Infinity Cache256 MB
Process nodeTSMC 5nm (compute) / 6nm (I/O)
Peak engine clock2,100 MHz
FP6481.7 TFLOPS (vector) / 163.4 TFLOPS (matrix)
FP32163.4 TFLOPS
FP16 / BF161.3 PFLOPS
FP82.61 PFLOPS (2.62 with sparsity)
INT82.6 POPS
TDP1,000W peak

Figures per AMD’s own MI325X product page 3. AMD’s launch release states this as a test-configuration power figure rather than a formally rated TDP specification, so this page describes it as AMD’s own stated peak power draw 1.

5.Where it’s made

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Made by TSMC, the same process split as MI300X: compute chiplets at 5 nanometres, input/output chiplets at 6 nanometres 3.

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AMD’s own product page states the same node pairing used for MI300X, consistent with MI325X being a memory-upgraded version of the same underlying chiplet platform rather than a new design 35.

6.Which systems use it

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AMD named Dell Technologies, Eviden, Gigabyte, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro as launch partners, with production shipments from the fourth quarter of 2024 and full system availability from early 2025 1.

Deep diveThe technical detail

AMD’s own October 2024 release does not name a hyperscale cloud customer for MI325X the way it later would for MI300X on Azure and Oracle — its named partners at launch are all server-hardware makers, not cloud operators 1. Specialist cloud providers picked it up soon after: DigitalOcean and Vultr both offer MI325X rentals (see pricing below), and it appears on India’s national AI compute portal.

7.Official pricing

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DigitalOcean lists MI325X from $3.80 per GPU-hour on-demand ($2.88 with a 12-month contract); Vultr lists it from $2.00 per GPU-hour 67.

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WherePriceTerms
DigitalOcean$3.80/GPU-hrOn-demand, official pricing page 6
DigitalOcean$2.88/GPU-hr12-month reserved contract, official pricing page; DigitalOcean’s original 2024 launch post quoted a lower introductory contract rate of $1.69/GPU-hr, since superseded 68
Vultr$2.00/GPU-hr“Starting at”, official pricing page 7
IndiaAI Mission compute portal, 1 GPU₹169.20/hourOn-demand list price 9

For comparison, the IndiaAI portal lists MI300X at ₹168.20 an hour on the same page — almost identical to MI325X despite the extra memory 9.

8.Real-world performance

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AMD’s own headline claim, against NVIDIA’s H200: up to 1.3x the FP16/FP8 compute performance, on top of 1.8x the memory capacity and 1.3x the bandwidth 1.

Deep diveThe technical detail

These are AMD’s own reported figures, comparing MI325X to a specific named competitor rather than an unnamed “leading GPU”. They are AMD-run benchmarks, not independently reproduced results, and this page reports them as AMD’s claim rather than a verified fact.

9.What came before, what came next

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Came before: MI300X, announced December 2023. Came after: the MI350 series (MI350X and MI355X), announced June 2025.

Deep diveThe technical detail

AMD’s own June 2025 release describes the MI350 series as up to a “4x generation-on-generation AI compute increase” over MI300X, and a “35x generational leap in inferencing” — AMD’s own marketing framing for the jump that follows MI325X 10.

10.Hidden in plain sight

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MI325X’s entire pitch is memory, not raw speed — its compute figures are close to identical to MI300X’s, and the story AMD tells about it is capacity and bandwidth, aimed at fitting bigger AI models on fewer chips.

Deep diveThe technical detail

The clearest evidence of that framing is AMD’s own comparison language: every headline number in its October 2024 release compares MI325X to NVIDIA’s H200 on memory capacity and bandwidth first (“1.8X more capacity and 1.3x more bandwidth”), with compute performance mentioned second 1 — a deliberate sequencing that tells you which specification AMD wanted a reader to notice first.

11.Sources

10 sources, checked September 2026. Where NVIDIA or another maker has not published a figure, this page says so rather than estimate it.

  1. AMD Investor Relations: AMD Delivers Leadership AI Performance with AMD Instinct MI325X Accelerators (10 Oct 2024)Official
  2. AMD Investor Relations: AMD Accelerates Pace of Data Center AI Innovation and Leadership with Expanded AMD Instinct GPU Roadmap (2 Jun 2024)Official
  3. AMD: Instinct MI325X product pageOfficial
  4. AMD at Hot Chips 2024: AMD Instinct MI300X (Alan Smith)Conference
  5. AMD: Instinct MI300X product pageOfficial
  6. DigitalOcean: GPU Droplets pricingOfficial
  7. Vultr: Cloud GPU: AMD MI325X / MI300XOfficial
  8. DigitalOcean: Now Available: AMD Instinct MI325X GPU DropletsOfficial
  9. IndiaAI Mission: Compute portal price listOfficial
  10. AMD Investor Relations: AMD Unveils Vision for an Open AI Ecosystem, Detailing New Silicon, Software and Systems at Advancing AI 2025 (12 Jun 2025)Official

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