NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• 2x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 743 MHz
• 10.3x more texture fill rate: 123.0 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
• 3.6x more pipelines: 1152 vs 320
• 8.3x better floating-point performance: 3,935 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 215 Watt
• 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
• 4.8x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1656 MHz
• 14.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9777 vs 660
• Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 771 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	9777 660
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	771 397

Compare specifications (specs)