NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking446not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money6.96no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTNV44MV
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years old)1 February 2006 (18 years old)
Current price$170 $1000
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1920no data
Core clock speed680 MHz3 MHz
Boost clock speedno data300 MHz
Number of transistors2x1700 Million75 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.200

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and GeForce Go 6200 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR564
Maximum RAM amount2x2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit300 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data4.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX119.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 6 January 2011 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 40 nm 110 nm

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
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