Radeon Instinct MI6 vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	729	not rated
Place by popularity	36	not in top-100
Power efficiency	21.30	no data
Architecture	Vega (2017−2020)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Ellesmere
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	26 October 2017 (8 years ago)	12 December 2016 (9 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 cores	512	2304
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1120 MHz
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1233 MHz
Number of transistors	9,800 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	57.60	177.6
Floating-point processing power	1.843 TFLOPS	5.682 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	32
TMUs	32	144
L1 Cache	no data	576 KB
L2 Cache	no data	2 MB

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).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-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 type	System Shared	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	8 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	224.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
Vulkan	1.2	1.2.131

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	26 October 2017	12 December 2016
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	150 Watt