NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +1142%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Redwood

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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