NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1670MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +184%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1.505 TFLOPS

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Polaris 23

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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