AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile 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).

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 80 Watt

Launch date	11 April 2018 vs 15 August 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 80 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1404 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1275 MHz
Around 64% higher texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024
Around 64% better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 2,611 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Boost clock speed	1670 MHz vs 1275 MHz
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops vs 2,611 gflops
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name	AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	676
PassMark - G3D Mark	1810
Geekbench - OpenCL	17914
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 560X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Code name	Baffin	GP106
Launch date	11 April 2018	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	280	283
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz	1670 MHz
Core clock speed	1175 MHz	1404 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,611 gflops	4,275 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	1024	1280
Texture fill rate	81.6 GTexel / s	133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA