AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 73% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Curie
Code name	Amethyst	C61
Launch date	29 September 2015	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	723	720
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5