NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 480 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 Max-Q

• Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1266 MHz
• 653.3x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
• Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
• Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 7000 MHz
• Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 147.271 vs 103.851
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1681.162 vs 769.541
• Around 15% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.754 vs 7.593
• Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 98.592 vs 67.879
• Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12767 vs 11172
• Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12767 vs 11172
• 3.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3316 vs 968

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480

• Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 1063 MHz
• Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• Around 80% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1280
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8590 vs 7824
• Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 775 vs 402
• Around 30% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39553 vs 30399
• Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 597.772 vs 416.14

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 480

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7824 8590
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	402 775
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	30399 39553
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	147.271 103.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1681.162 769.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.754 7.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	98.592 67.879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	416.14 597.772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12767 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3712 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12767 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3712 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	3316 968

Compare specifications (specs)