NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 5900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 5900, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points
144% significantly better overall score
732 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
15 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points
460% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5338 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points
401% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6476 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586
289th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 5900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q beats the Radeon HD 5900 in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon HD 5900.

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