AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1670MHz vs 1287MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +159%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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