NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
2735 points
32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
61 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
42 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
53 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
380.88 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
45145 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
53865 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
48% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
47% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6550M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6550M over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

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