Product Compare

AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2018 Dec 2010
Generation Radeon Instinct Northern Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1200 MHz
Boost Clock 1800 MHz
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 32GB 2GB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 4096bit 256bit
Bandwidth 1024GB/s 176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 64 24
Shading Units 4096 1536
TMUs 256 96
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 115.2 GPixel/s 28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 460.8 GTexel/s 84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 29.49 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 14.75 TFLOPS 2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 7.373 TFLOPS 675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 20 Cayman
GPU Variant Vega 20 GL Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture GCN 5.1 TeraScale 3
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 7 nm 40 nm
Transistors 13.23 billion 2.64 billion
Die Size 331 mm² 389 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 250W
Suggested PSU 700 W 600 W
Outputs 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.4 5.0