AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 254.31

$ 34.69 slightly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

2058 points

343% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

11 FPS

42 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

33 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

27 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

29 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

33958 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

33939 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

33375 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

32433 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1506 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

1708 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

297% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

138% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1152

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 592

207th of 592

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the Radeon RX 550X in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the Radeon RX 550X.