NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +224%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +220%

3847

Radeon RX 550

1202

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +150%

15

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +141%

29

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +109%

44

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +257%

25

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +228%

46

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +235%

67

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

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

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Lexa

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

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 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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