AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RX 5500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 25 December 2016
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1448 MHz
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1708 MHz vs 1645 MHz

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1448 MHz
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz vs 1645 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
PassMark - G3D Mark	3166
PassMark - G2D Mark	336
Geekbench - OpenCL	38172
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4223

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	Pascal
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	25 December 2016
Place in performance rating	368	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		GP104
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	1708 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1448 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.26 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.63 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	52.6 GP/s
Stream Processors	1408
Texture fill rate	144.76 GT/s
Transistor count	6400 million	7,200 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		250 mm
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory type	GDDR6
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6