Radeon RX 550 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Lexa
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
June 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-