AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce 6200 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

3.200GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

560.0 MPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.120 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV44

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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