NVIDIA GeForce 6200 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6200

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 6200 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 8.800GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6200

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2004

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

275 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.800GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

4

TMUs

128

2

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

600.0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

1.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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