NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 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, 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) 2 month(s) later
• Around 59% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 669 MHz
• 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 2x 320
• 4.4x better floating-point performance: 3,789 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 75% lower typical power consumption: 80 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
• 9.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7895 vs 822

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

• Around 78% higher texture fill rate: 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 413

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7895 822
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	413 422

Compare specifications (specs)