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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB 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

2457 points
2735 points
11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
61 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
42 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
53 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points
380.88 points
0.79% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
45145 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
53865 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

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

136.7 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
43% 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

180th 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 July
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6550M beats the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6550M is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

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