AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

277x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 120 Watt

Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 44% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1183 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
2.5x more maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 2 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 611 vs 466
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9056 vs 2121

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 December 2017 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 512
Maximum memory size	5 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	611 vs 466
PassMark - G3D Mark	9056 vs 2121

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

466

611

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2121

9056

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	466	611
PassMark - G3D Mark	2121	9056
Geekbench - OpenCL		35108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3917

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Lexa	GP106
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	26 December 2017
Place in performance rating	300	303
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1709 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1280
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	250 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	5 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	160 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5