NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP 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 59% (1708MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

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

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +187%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

640

72

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

60W

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

GP106

GPU Name

Baffin

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 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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