GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Navi 24
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2017
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1341 - 1480 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1063 - 1265 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
60 - 70 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6.144 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12.0
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
VR Ready
+
-