NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

2077 points

2735 points

31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

61 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

42 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

53 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

24 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

380.88 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

45145 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

53865 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

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

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

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

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