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

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AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 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 RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1708MHz vs 1183MHz)

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +224%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2016

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

1708 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/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

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

75.71 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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