NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT 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

Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1757MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +23%

5.398 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1187 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

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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