EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.84 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.71 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Pascal Architecture RDNA 1
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
1280 Shader 1408
48 Render Output Units 32
80 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB has a turbo clock of 1.835 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G is 1.845 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.835 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

120 W TDP 135 W
150 W TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
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 / Encode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 233 mm
111 mm Height 122 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SSC2 GAMING 6GB was released in Q3/2016.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 4G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

06G-P4-6667-KR Part-no 11295-03-20G
Q3/2016 Release date Q3/2019
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 7 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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