GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G
vs
MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G has 1280 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.77 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.54 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.12 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G GPU MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Based on AMD Radeon 550
GP106-400-A1 GPU Chip Lexa PRO
Pascal Architecture GCN 4
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
1280 Shader 512
48 Render Output Units 16
80 Texture Units 32
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 56 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G has a turbo clock of 1.771 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is 1.203 GHz.

1.531 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
1.771 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
1.75 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 6-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G is 37 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is 37 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

169 mm Length 157 mm
131 mm Height 113 mm
37 mm Width 42 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, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 6G was released in Q3/2016.

The MSI Radeon 550 AERO ITX 2G OC published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GV-N1060IXOC-6GD Part-no --
Q3/2016 Release date Q2/2017
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $ (Reference)
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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

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

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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