NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking272not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money32.16no data
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)no data
GPU code nameNeptune CFC51MV
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2012 (11 years old)1 February 2006 (18 years old)
Current price$170 $299
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 cores2560no data
Core clock speed850 MHz1 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce Go 6150 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

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
Memory bus width2x 256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed4800 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

API support

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

DirectX11.1shared Memory

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 May 2012 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
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