AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 42% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1404 MHz
  • Around 44% higher boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1670 MHz
  • 1149.7x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 80 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 15 August 2016
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Boost clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1670 MHz
Texture fill rate 153.6 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 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 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Pipelines 1280 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name AMD Radeon RX 6500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 394
PassMark - G3D Mark 7773
Geekbench - OpenCL 38906
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 RX 6500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 24 GP106
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 15 August 2016
Place in performance rating 281 283
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2400 MHz 1670 MHz
Compute units 16
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.915 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 1280
Pixel fill rate 76.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.6 GTexel/s 133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 4,400 million
Floating-point performance 4,275 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

CUDA