GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and Radeon Instinct MI8 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
Radeon Instinct MI8
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
GP106
Fiji
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
December 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
8,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
256.0
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
+
-