NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 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 11 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 11.8x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1450 MHz
  • 57.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7895 vs 137
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed 1063 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7895 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 413
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 507 vs 413

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7895
137
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
413
507
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 7895 137
PassMark - G2D Mark 413 507
Geekbench - OpenCL 27871
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 147.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1681.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 98.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 416.14
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3316

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture Pascal R500
Code name GP106 R580
Launch date 27 June 2017 24 January 2006
Place in performance rating 367 293
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1480 MHz
Core clock speed 1063 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 1450 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready