NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1709MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +219%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

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

Lexa

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 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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