GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 8852 (252%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 71% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (approximately 242%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85280 (242%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (about 311%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54688 (311%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.