GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GF116
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2011
June 2017
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1265 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-