NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB and ATI Radeon X1950 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: 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 X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1404 MHz vs 650 MHz
12.8x more texture fill rate: 133.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 90 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Launch date	15 August 2016 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
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		151
PassMark - G2D Mark		466

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	R500
Code name	GP106	R580+
Launch date	15 August 2016	10 September 2006
Place in performance rating	277	328
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1670 MHz
Core clock speed	1404 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,275 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280
Texture fill rate	133.6 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
Vulkan
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Technologies
CUDA