Product Compare

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2016 Dec 2017
Generation Radeon Instinct GeForce 10
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1120 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1233 MHz 1709 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 5GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 160bit
Bandwidth 224.0GB/s 160.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36
Shading Units 2304 1280
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 40
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1280 KB
SM Count 10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 39.46 GPixel/s 68.36 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 177.6 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.682 TFLOPS 68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.682 TFLOPS 4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 355.1 GFLOPS 136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere GP106
GPU Variant Ellesmere XT GP106-350-K3-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 16 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 4.4 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 200 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 120W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.4 6.4
CUDA 6.1