AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon RX 5500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1670MHz vs 1645MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (80W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500M +8%

4.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

4.275 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500M +17%

4320

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

3664

Radeon RX 5500M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Aug 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1375 MHz

Base Clock

1404 MHz

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

144.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

9.265 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

4.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

289.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GP106

Navi 14 XTM

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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