NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking577not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money2.01no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTXC51MV
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 July 2011 (12 years old)1 February 2006 (18 years old)
Current price$190 $322
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 cores1120no data
Core clock speed715 MHz1 MHz
Boost clock speedno data425 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate40.04no data
Floating-point performance1,601.6 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6990M and GeForce Go 6100 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
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)shared Memory
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/Ano data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 12 July 2011 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 40 nm 110 nm

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