EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB
vs
XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB has 1152 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.94 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.23 TFLOPS.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 9 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB GPU XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa)
GP106-300-A1 GPU Chip Lexa PRO
Pascal Architecture GCN 4
9 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
1152 Shader 512
48 Render Output Units 16
72 Texture Units 32
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB is equipped with a 3 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

3 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB has a turbo clock of 1.708 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition is 1.203 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
1.708 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

120 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 170 mm
111 mm Height 121 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW2 DT GAMING 3GB was released in Q3/2016.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Core Edition published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

03G-P4-6765-KR Part-no RX-550P4SFG5
Q3/2016 Release date Q4/2017
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
16 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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