ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	281	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	27.15	no data
Power efficiency	16.87	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	GP106	R520
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	15 August 2016 (8 years ago)	20 December 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$237.11	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	no data
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	600 MHz
Boost clock speed	1708 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	4,400 million	321 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	113 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	133.6	9.600
Floating-point processing power	4.275 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	48	16
TMUs	80	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2002 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	44.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	DP 1.43, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDCP	2.2	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+	-
GPU Boost	3.0	no data
VR Ready	+	no data
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.4	3.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 August 2016	20 December 2005
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	16 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	113 Watt

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