AMD Radeon RX 5500M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
AMD Radeon RX 5500M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

296
Place in performance rating
131
Navi / RDNA
Architecture
Pascal
Navi 14
Code name
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Laptop
Type
Laptop
29 September 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
30 May 2017 (4 years ago)
$998
Price now
$1010
4.93
Value for money
12.62
Navi 14 / R19M-E85
GPU code name
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1408
Pipelines
1280
1327 MHz
Core clock speed
1063 - 1265 MHz
1645 MHz
Boost Clock
1341 - 1480 MHz
6,400 million
Transistor count
4,400 million
7 nm
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
85 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
144.8
Texture fill rate
118.4
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Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
1408
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1645 MHz
Boost clock speed
1341 - 1480 MHz
6,400 million
Number of transistors
4,400 million
85 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
80 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB.

PCIe 4.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
medium sized
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB can be seen in this section.

GDDR6
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
6.144 MB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
192 Bit
14000 MHz
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
224.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
G-SYNC support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
CUDA
6.1
no data
Multi-Projection
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12.0
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
+
no data
Shader Model
5.0
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon RX 5500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon RX 5500M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon RX 5500M 78 67 60 47 34 18
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon RX 5500M 99.9 71.1 65.8 64.1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon RX 5500M 167 119 100 69 55 25
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon RX 5500M 182 123 79.25 56.75 38 19
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon RX 5500M 152 108 44.9
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Cheaper ($998 vs $1010)

More pipelines (1408 vs 1280)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 16 nm)

More memory bandwidth (224.0 GB/s vs 192.2 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB

21.6% faster in synthetic tests

Less power consumption (80 Watt vs 85 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (6.144 MB vs 4 GB)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon RX 5500M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB .

AMD Radeon RX 5500M versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB performance benchmarks comparison

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