GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh vs Radeon RX 5500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking364not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.64no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 14TU106B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores14081920
Core clock speed1375 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate144.8144.0
Floating-point processing power4.632 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs88120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1353 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s259.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 115 Watt

RX 5500M has an age advantage of 8 months, a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 35.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500M and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 5500M
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