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300mm wafer

68 candidate dies · yield 80%

AMD Instinct MI300X

AMD (manufactured by TSMC)

N5 (Compute) / N6 (I/O)1017 mm² die~85 masks1019 process steps55 good dies/wafer80% yield

The MI300X is a massive chiplet-based GPU accelerator utilizing 8 GPU compute dies (GCDs) on TSMC's 5nm process, stacked on top of 4 I/O dies on TSMC's 6nm process. This chiplet approach significantly improves manufacturing yield compared to a monolithic die of the same total area, while bringing the total transistor count to a staggering 153 billion. Note: Die area represents estimated combined active logic.

Water
104L

= 207 bottles of water (500 mL)

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Energy
31.8kWh

= 21.2 hours of running an AC

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GHG Emissions
22.9kg CO₂e

= 109 km of driving a car

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F-gas / PFAS
9.5kg CO₂e

= 45.4 km of driving a car

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Process Breakdown (per die)
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