Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
General info
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
Place in performance ranking | 272 | not rated |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
Value for money | 32.16 | no data |
Architecture | GCN (2011−2017) | no data |
GPU code name | Neptune CF | C51MV |
Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
Release date | 1 May 2012 (11 years old) | 1 February 2006 (18 years old) |
Current price | $170 | $299 |
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 cores | 2560 | no data |
Core clock speed | 850 MHz | 1 MHz |
Boost clock speed | 900 MHz | 425 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 110 nm |
Power consumption (TDP) | 200 Watt | no 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 size | large | no 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 type | GDDR5 | no data |
Memory bus width | 2x 256 Bit | no data |
Memory clock speed | 4800 MHz | no data |
Shared memory | - | + |
API support
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
DirectX | 11.1 | shared Memory |
Advantages and disadvantages
Recency | 1 May 2012 | 1 February 2006 |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | 110 nm |
We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce Go 6150. We've got no test results to judge.
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