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    GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    GeForce GTX 1060
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jul 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060
    GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 15 Mar 2011
    GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      697%
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 597% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    Supports PhysX
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1060

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

    The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
    Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs238 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs1,170 million
    Shaders1280vs192
    Compute Units10vs4
    Core clock1506 MHzvs900 MHz
    ROPs48vs24
    TMUs80vs32

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1026 MHz
    4104 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    TDP120 wattsvs116 watts
    Release Date10 Jul 2016vs15 Mar 2011

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      72.30 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      7.20 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      120.50 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      28.80 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      192.20 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      98.50 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      3855.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      691.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      17380
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      2490

    Points (higher is better)

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