NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1845MHz vs 1709MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +18%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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