Radeon Instinct MI50 vs Instinct MI60

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega 20Vega 20
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 November 2018 (6 years ago)18 November 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40963840
Core clock speed1200 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1800 MHz1746 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate460.8419.0
Floating-point processing power14.75 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs256240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount32 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,024 GB/s1.02 TB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB

Instinct MI60 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

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