NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +601%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

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

5.200 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Turks

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

118 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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