AMD Radeon Pro W5500X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X

  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1855 MHz vs 1709 MHz
  • 2032.9x more texture fill rate: 277.9 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 60% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 5 GB
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 8008 MHz
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3721 vs 3417
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3721 vs 3417
  • Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 729 vs 619
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1855 MHz vs 1709 MHz
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 5 GB
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 8008 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 vs 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 vs 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3358
PassMark - G2D Mark 729 vs 619

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1243 MHz
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 205 Watt
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9092 vs 7351
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1243 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 205 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9092 vs 7351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3417
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3358
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
729
619
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7351
9092
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 3358
PassMark - G2D Mark 729 619
PassMark - G3D Mark 7351 9092
Geekbench - OpenCL 35143
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10818
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3915

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 10 GP106
Launch date Q3'2020 26 December 2017
Place in performance rating 323 317
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1855 MHz 1709 MHz
Compute units 20
Core clock speed 1243 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 555.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.2 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.6 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 1280
Pixel fill rate 123.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s 136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 205 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x Thunderbolt 3, 2x HDMI 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 12 inches (305 mm) 250 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 5 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 160 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5