Radeon Instinct MI60 vs R5 A220

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCaicosVega 20
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2014 (10 years ago)18 November 2018 (5 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 cores1604096
Core clock speed775 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors370 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate6.200460.8
Floating-point processing powerno data14.75 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8256

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MBps1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s1,024 GB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3aNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 300 Watt

R5 A220 has 757.1% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI60, on the other hand, has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A220 and Radeon Instinct MI60. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A220 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI60 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 A220
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