GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GF116
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1506 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
136.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3