NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M 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

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2400MHz vs 1480MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +29%

4.915 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

340

Radeon RX 6500M +18%

404

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Navi 24

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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