NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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

3514 points
28% slightly better overall score
2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points
263% significantly higher Blender score
380.88 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53865 points

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

264 GB/s
83% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
27% slightly 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

138th 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

2020 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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 RTX 2060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6550M in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 6550M.

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