AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1709MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +261%

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +50%

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +183%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +142%

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +300%

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +271%

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +275%

75

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 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

GP104-150-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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