GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and Radeon RX 6550M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Radeon RX 6550M

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2018

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1709 MHz

2560 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

2000 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

80 Watt (50 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

136.7

181.8

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3