AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +298%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

160bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GP106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

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 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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