GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 550
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1709 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 550
GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
1,280
+150.0%
Shaders
512
1,280
+150.0%
TMUs
32
80
+150.0%
ROPs
16
48
+200.0%
Compute Units
8
—
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1709 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
2257 MHz
9 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
6,144
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
216.7 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
82.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
136.7 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
68.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
50 W
120 W
TDP (W)
50
120
+140.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Pascal
GPU Name
Lexa
GP106
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
GeForce 10
Process Size
14 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
4,400 million
Die Size
103 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
22.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
6.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
145 mm
5.7 inches
250 mm
9.8 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
79 USD
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
GeForce 900
Successor
Vega
GeForce 20