AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce 6200

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 6200 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 8.800GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce 6200

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Oct 2004

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

275 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.800GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

-

88

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

2

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

600.0 MPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.200 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV43

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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