AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI60

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 926-1168 MHz
  • Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1206-1244 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Launch date 18 November 2018 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed 1200 MHz vs 926-1168 MHz
Boost clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1206-1244 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • 3.5x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 4.0
Code name Vega 20 Ellesmere
Launch date 18 November 2018 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $599.99
Price now $149.99
Value for money (0-100) 59.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1800 MHz 1206-1244 MHz
Core clock speed 1200 MHz 926-1168 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 13,230 million 5,700 million
Floating-point performance 5.1 TFLOPs
Pipelines 2048
Pixel fill rate 39.81 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s
Texture Units 128

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 7000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)