GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and Radeon RX 550 640SP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Radeon RX 550 640SP
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GP106
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2017
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1709 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1019 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
1,371 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
42.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
5 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
160 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160.2 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131