AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
1054.1x more texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 8008 MHz

Launch date	13 Nov 2019 vs 27 June 2017
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 8008 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1265 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 85 Watt

Core clock speed	1265 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz vs 1300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 85 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark	6763
PassMark - G2D Mark	654
Geekbench - OpenCL	37259
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	105.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1860.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	11.238
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	596.819
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3426

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 14	GP106
Launch date	13 Nov 2019	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	351	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1480 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1265 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	249.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.994 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1280
Pixel fill rate	41.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	4,400 million
Floating-point performance		3,789 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.1
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA