Product Compare

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2016 Oct 2018
Generation Radeon Instinct GeForce 10
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 500 MHz 1001 MHz
Base Clock 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 6GB
Memory Type HBM GDDR5X
Memory Bus 4096bit 192bit
Bandwidth 512.0GB/s 192.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 64
Shading Units 4096 1280
TMUs 256 80
ROPs 64 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1536 KB
SM Count 10
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 256.0 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 8.192 TFLOPS 68.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 8.192 TFLOPS 4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 512.0 GFLOPS 136.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Fiji GP104
GPU Variant Fiji XT CA(215-0862120) GP104-150-KA-A1
Architecture GCN 3.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 8.9 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 596 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 120W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2.170 1.3
Shader Model 6.5 6.4
CUDA 6.1