NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 10

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

NV43

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Pascal

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

110 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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