Radeon Instinct MI6 and Radeon Instinct MI8 - video card comparison
Radeon Instinct MI6
Radeon Instinct MI8
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
Ellesmere
Fiji
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2016
December 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1233 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,682 gflops
8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
8,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
177.6
256.0
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131