Radeon RX 6550M vs GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated216
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.35
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU116Navi 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed1140 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz2840 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data181.8
Floating-point processing powerno data5.816 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm

RX 6550M has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and Radeon RX 6550M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 6550M
Radeon RX 6550M

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