AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce 6200

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 8.800GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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GeForce 6200

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2004

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

275 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.800GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

600.0 MPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV43

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x 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

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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