AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M 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 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Around 70% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1670 MHz
1360.8x more texture fill rate: 181.8 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

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 15 August 2016
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1404 MHz
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz vs 1670 MHz
Texture fill rate	181.8 GTexel/s vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 16 nm

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 6550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6550M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	495
PassMark - G3D Mark	9786
Geekbench - OpenCL	45426
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 6550M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 24	GP106
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	207	278
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz	1670 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	1024	1280
Pixel fill rate	90.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.8 GTexel/s	133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 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