AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce 6200 X2 PCI

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCI

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3.200GB/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

560.0 MPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.120 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

2x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV44

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.075 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

110 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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