Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders640vs1152
Compute Units10vs9
Core clock1125 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs40vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP0 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better