AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 550X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +261%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

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GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2017

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

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

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

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 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

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-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

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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