GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 vs Radeon R9 Nano

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking306not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.74no data
Power efficiency8.90no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameFijiC61
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date27 August 2015 (10 years ago)11 October 2004 (21 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

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Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096no data
Compute units64no data
Core clock speedno data425 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Wattno data
Texture fill rate256.00.43
Floating-point processing power8.192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs641
TMUs2561
L1 Cache1 MBno data
L2 Cache2 MBno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length152 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)System Shared
High bandwidth memory (HBM)+no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width4096 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth512 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 129.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.33.0
OpenGL4.52.1
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 11 October 2004
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R9 Nano has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce 6100 + nForce 420. We've got no test results to judge.

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