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MagyarRadeon RX 5600M vs. GeForce RTX 2060: AMD is So Freaking Close
AMD-only laptops are not easy to come by. OEMs had good excuses to exclude AMD hardware on most gaming laptops a few years ago since mobile Polaris and Excavator were a joke, but times have changed with the advent of 7 nm Ryzen and Navi.
Dell recently shipped its budget-midrange G5 15 Special Edition gaming laptop this month to be one of the first out of the gate with a Radeon RX 5600M GPU. We ran as many benchmarks as we could on this single unit — both synthetic and gaming — to see how it compares to the all-popular mobile GeForce RTX 2060. Our results against the average of 25 different gaming laptops with the RTX 2060 are graphed below.
When looking only at synthetic 3DMark benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600M is able to outperform the average mobile RTX 2060 by 16 percent in Fire Strike but only 2 percent in Time Spy to suggest that the AMD GPU should perform better in DX11 titles than DX12 ones. In most real-world games, however, the Radeon RX 5600M seems to perform a few percentage points slower than the average mobile RTX 2060 to be more in line with the GTX 1660 Ti. The notable outlier is GRID 2019 where the AMD GPU tops even the desktop RTX 2060, but this is an exception than a rule.
From a power consumption perspective, the AMD-powered Dell G5 15 SE consumes about 153 W when gaming to be comparable to other 15.6-inch gaming laptops with the GeForce RTX 2060 subjected to the exact same load. Of course, other components surrounding the GPU have heavy influences here as well and so we can't take this as a one-to-one GPU power consumption comparison, but it does show how much more refined these Intel-Nvidia gaming laptops have gotten over the years even though they run on older 12 nm and 14 nm processors.
When taken as a whole, the Dell gaming laptop with Radeon RX 5600M graphics is able to run games at a level close to the mobile GeForce RTX 2060 and at a slightly lower performance-per-watt. We suspect that additional driver updates can further close these gaps especially since the mobile RDNA GPU is so new to market. Dell is offering its all-AMD G5 15 SE for as low as $860 USD at the moment compared to $1100+ for an Intel and RTX 2060-powered alternative, so performance-per-dollar is more clearly in AMD's favor. If you're after hardware-enabled ray-tracing, however, then the GeForce series is still the better option.
The Asus TUF A15 with the RTX 2060 and same Ryzen 7 CPU currently retails for $900 to $1000 as an alternative to the Dell G5 15 SE.
The budget to mid-range gaming laptop market is going to look really interesting in the next year or two if AMD can continue to fine-tune its 7 nm processors and Adrenalin drivers.
| low | med. | high | ultra | |
| The Witcher 3 (2015) | 266.4 | 103.6 | 66.1 | |
| Dota 2 Reborn (2015) | 124 | 119 | 106 | 102 |
| X-Plane 11.11 (2018) | 48.2 | 37.6 | 33.7 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) | 122 | 89 | 83 | 68 |
| Assassin´s Creed Odyssey (2018) | 78 | 67 | 60 | 49 |
| Apex Legends (2019) | 143.7 | 137.1 | 110.7 | 104.1 |
| Far Cry New Dawn (2019) | 91 | 77 | 74 | 67 |
| Metro Exodus (2019) | 146.4 | 75.5 | 55.2 | 44.9 |
| Dirt Rally 2.0 (2019) | 215 | 135 | 113.6 | 77.3 |
| The Division 2 (2019) | 129 | 93 | 75 | 57 |
| Anno 1800 (2019) | 80.4 | 79.1 | 63.5 | 40 |
| Total War: Three Kingdoms (2019) | 196.8 | 96.9 | 64.9 | 44.2 |
| F1 2019 (2019) | 191 | 140 | 114 | 106 |
| Control (2019) | 176.7 | 72.3 | 53.1 | |
| Borderlands 3 (2019) | 105.2 | 81.7 | 61.2 | 47.8 |
| Ghost Recon Breakpoint (2019) | 96 | 76 | 68 | 50 |
| GRID 2019 (2019) | 186.2 | 134.3 | 116.6 | 88.6 |
| Need for Speed Heat (2019) | 86.9 | 76.6 | 70.1 | 60.1 |
| Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order (2019) | 76 | 68.4 | 67.1 | |
| Hunt Showdown (2020) | 150.7 | 91.3 | 66.2 | |
| Doom Eternal (2020) | 232.3 | 144.7 | 124 | 114.6 |
| Gears Tactics (2020) | 137.8 | 135.7 | 96.1 | 70.6 |
| Dell G5 15 SE 5505 P89F R7 4800H, Radeon RX 5600M, Samsung PM991 MZ9LQ512HALU, WVA, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 R7 4800H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Kingston OM8PCP3512F-AB, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop 2019 i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Toshiba XG6 KXG60ZNV512G, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Dell G7 7590 i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Toshiba BG3 KBG30ZMS256G, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | MSI GL65 9SEK i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | MSI GP65 Leopard 9SE-225US i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Toshiba KBG30ZMT512G, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Asus Strix GL531GV-PB74 i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Intel SSD 660p SSDPEKNW512G8, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Aorus 15 W9 i7-8750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Intel SSD 760p SSDPEKKW512G8, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Dell G5 15 5590 i7-8750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, KBG30ZMS128G, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Lenovo Legion Y540-15IRH i7-9750H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Samsung PM981a MZVLB1T0HBLR, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | Eluktronics RP-15 R7 4800H, GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, Phison PM81000GPMQCN28BTF-E12S4 M.2 NVM SSD, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.60 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Consumption | -1% | -32% | -81% | -203% | -50% | -60% | -68% | 11% | -71% | -112% | |
| Idle Minimum * | 6.5 | 5.4 17% | 10 -54% | 11.2 -72% | 41 -531% | 13.6 -109% | 10.9 -68% | 18 -177% | 3.5 46% | 15 -131% | 21.7 -234% |
| Idle Average * | 10.6 | 10 6% | 13 -23% | 16.3 -54% | 45.3 -327% | 17.9 -69% | 14.7 -39% | 20 -89% | 6.9 35% | 20 -89% | 30.1 -184% |
| Idle Maximum * | 11 | 10.5 5% | 20 -82% | 46.2 -320% | 47.1 -328% | 20.6 -87% | 32.4 -195% | 28 -155% | 8.5 23% | 33 -200% | 35 -218% |
| Load Average * | 84.1 | 135 -61% | 100 -19% | 123.3 -47% | 94.9 -13% | 96 -14% | 121.9 -45% | 87 -3% | 127 -51% | 88 -5% | 112.6 -34% |
| Witcher 3 ultra * | 152.9 | 144 6% | 159 -4% | 135.6 11% | 149.4 2% | 154.6 -1% | 143.5 6% | 135 12% | 128 16% | 134.4 12% | |
| Load Maximum * | 180.4 | 147 19% | 196 -9% | 181.5 -1% | 214.2 -19% | 218.6 -21% | 209.6 -16% | 175 3% | 179 1% | 213 -18% | 201.5 -12% |
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