NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1708MHz vs 1183MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +224%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Lexa

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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