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GPU and unified-memory capacity

Dedicated VRAM/HBM and shared unified memory are labeled separately. Capacity is not a performance ranking. Bars use a logarithmic scale.

Accelerator or unified-memory capacityVendor-advertised GB · logarithmic bar scale
GeForce RTX 409024 GB · dedicated
Radeon RX 7900 XTX24 GB · dedicated
GeForce RTX 509032 GB · dedicated
Radeon PRO W790048 GB · dedicated
H100 SXM80 GB · dedicated
H200141 GB · dedicated
Instinct MI300X192 GB · dedicated
Instinct MI325X256 GB · dedicated

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Representative GPU, accelerator, and unified-memory capacities from official vendor specifications
HardwareClassMemoryTypeQualificationSource / observedFind retailers
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090Consumer GPU; software support and usable free VRAM depend on the system configuration.consumer gpu24 GBGDDR6XDedicatedVendor ↗Search NeweggSearch Amazon
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXBackend and kernel support should be checked separately from capacity.consumer gpu24 GBGDDR6DedicatedVendor ↗Search NeweggSearch Amazon
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090Consumer GPU; advertised capacity does not guarantee runtime compatibility.consumer gpu32 GBGDDR7DedicatedVendor ↗Search NeweggSearch Amazon
AMD Radeon PRO W7900Workstation GPU with ECC support.workstation gpu48 GBGDDR6 ECCDedicatedVendor ↗Search NeweggSearch Amazon
NVIDIA H100 SXMH100 NVL is a separate 94GB configuration; this row represents the 80GB SXM capacity.datacenter accelerator80 GBHBMDedicatedVendor ↗—
NVIDIA H200Datacenter accelerator capacity.datacenter accelerator141 GBHBM3eDedicatedVendor ↗—
AMD Instinct MI300XDatacenter accelerator capacity.datacenter accelerator192 GBHBM3DedicatedVendor ↗—
AMD Instinct MI325XDatacenter accelerator capacity.datacenter accelerator256 GBHBM3EDedicatedVendor ↗—
Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra (maximum configuration)Maximum configurable unified memory shared by CPU, GPU, and the operating system; not equivalent to dedicated VRAM.unified memory system512 GBUnified memoryUnified / sharedVendor ↗—

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