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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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, 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 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 743 MHz
• 10x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
• 4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 320
• 8x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
• 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 215 Watt
• 12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
• 4.8x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1656 MHz
• 12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7920 vs 660
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 409 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7920 660
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	409 397

Compare specifications (specs)