NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6550S

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2400MHz vs 1282MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +100%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 6550S

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Navi Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 24

-

GPU Variant

Navi 24

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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