AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
283.4x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 80 Watt

Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 80 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1404 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1183 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1670 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 512
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	463
PassMark - G3D Mark	2027
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		5034
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		5034

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Lexa	GP106
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	285	283
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1670 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1280
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		4,275 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA