Radeon Instinct MI60: specs and benchmarks
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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 | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 5.1 (2018−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Vega 20 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 November 2018 (6 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1800 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 13,230 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 460.8 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 14.75 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 256 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 1 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,024 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
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.
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
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