NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 77% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 600 MHz
• 12.3x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
• 4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
• 9.9x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
• 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 200 Watt
• 12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
• 5x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• 12.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7903 vs 628
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 407 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7903 628
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	407 397

Compare specifications (specs)