NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1845MHz vs 1709MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +18%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

110W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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