NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB and ATI Radeon HD 4850 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1404 MHz vs 625 MHz
2.1x better floating-point performance: 4,275 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 250 Watt
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1990 MHz

Launch date	15 August 2016 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 625 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1990 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2x 800 vs 1280

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 133.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 800 vs 1280

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5034
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5034
PassMark - G3D Mark		1132
PassMark - G2D Mark		542

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP106	R700
Launch date	15 August 2016	7 November 2008
Place in performance rating	278	275
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$420
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1670 MHz
Core clock speed	1404 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1280	2x 800
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
Vulkan
DirectX		10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA