Radeon Instinct MI60 vs RX 5600 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking142not rated
Place by popularity79not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation55.43no data
Power efficiency16.39no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 10Vega 20
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)18 November 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23044096
Core clock speed1130 MHz1200 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz1800 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate224.6460.8
Floating-point processing power7.188 TFLOPS14.75 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs144256

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 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB32 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s1,024 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2020 18 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 300 Watt

RX 5600 XT has an age advantage of 1 year, and 100% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI60, on the other hand, has a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon Instinct MI60. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5600 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI60 is a workstation one.


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