AMD FirePro M2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M2000 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M2000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 425 vs 192
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 206 vs 72
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 July 2012 vs 8 December 2005
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s vs 5.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 425 vs 192
PassMark - G2D Mark 206 vs 72

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M2000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
425
192
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
206
72
Name AMD FirePro M2000 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 425 192
PassMark - G2D Mark 206 72
Geekbench - OpenCL 1168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.284
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 195.801
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.254
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 544
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1498
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1709
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 544
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1498
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1709

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro M2000 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Turks NV40 A1
Launch date 1 July 2012 8 December 2005
Place in performance rating 1498 1496
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $249

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 480
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 5.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support n / a
Form factor chip-down
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0