Radeon E9550 MXM vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	277	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	26.30	no data
Power efficiency	17.00	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GP106	Ellesmere
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	15 August 2016 (8 years ago)	27 September 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$237.11	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	2304
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	1120 MHz
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz	1266 MHz
Number of transistors	4,400 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	95 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	133.6	182.3
Floating-point processing power	4.275 TFLOPS	5.834 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	32
TMUs	80	144

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	160.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	-	+
HDCP	2.2	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+	-
GPU Boost	3.0	no data
VR Ready	+	no data
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 August 2016	27 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	95 Watt

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