Radeon Instinct MI60: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon Instinct MI60 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 35.82% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon Instinct MI60 sales 18 November 2018. This is a GCN 5.1 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,024 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Instinct MI60: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 158 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 9.23 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 5.1 (2018−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Vega 20 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 November 2018 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon Instinct MI60's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Instinct MI60's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4096 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1800 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 13,230 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 460.8 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 14.75 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 256 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 1 MB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 4 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Instinct MI60 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Instinct MI60: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,024 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Instinct MI60. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon Instinct MI60, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Instinct MI60. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Instinct MI60 is Quadro RTX 4000, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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