NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 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) 0 month(s) later
• 2.1x more core clock speed: 1063 MHz vs 500 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 90 nm
• Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 110 Watt
• 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
• 6.7x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• 39.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7900 vs 202

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

• Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 413 vs 408

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7900 202
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	408 413

Compare specifications (specs)