NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 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 6 GB

• Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• 2.3x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 669 MHz
• 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 2x 320
• 5.1x better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
• Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 140 Watt
• 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
• 4.8x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1656 MHz
• 12.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10075 vs 822
• Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 749 vs 422

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

• Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 136.7 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	10075 822
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	749 422

Compare specifications (specs)