AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1708MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +215%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

512

Shading Units

1152

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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