NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +617%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 6550A

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Pinewood

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Pinewood PRO

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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