NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop, 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
2105 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
49 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
33 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
159% significantly higher Blender score
142.83 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
35193 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
31071 points
0.50% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
60% significantly higher core clock speed
1065 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
23 W
421% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
202nd of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs T550 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the T550 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, the T550 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the T550 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1060.

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