MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC
vs
ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC and the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) and has 512 texture shaders and 8 execution units.

ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, which has 1280 shaders and 10 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC GPU ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Lexa PRO GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
512 Shader 1280
16 Render Output Units 48
32 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has 2 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC clocks in the base with up to 1.100 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 1.506 GHz.

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

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is 50 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

50 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

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

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC is 155 mm long, 112 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is 242 mm long, 130 mm high and 43 mm wide.

155 mm Length 242 mm
112 mm Height 130 mm
38 mm Width 43 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 550 AERO ITX 2G OC was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 79 $ (Reference).

The ASUS Dual series GeForce GTX 1060 6GB was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no DUAL-GTX1060-6G
Q2/2017 Release date Q3/2016
79 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
-- 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

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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