AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
800x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 1 MHz
960x more pipelines: 2x 960 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 373 vs 239
194.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2534 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 September 2011 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 1 MHz
Pipelines	2x 960 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	373 vs 239
PassMark - G3D Mark	2534 vs 13

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

373

239

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2534

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Geekbench - OpenCL	3977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.789
PassMark - G2D Mark	373	239
PassMark - G3D Mark	2534	13

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Barts	C67
Launch date	19 September 2011	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	723	725
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	1 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 1,536.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2x 960	2
Texture fill rate	2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	254 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	shared Memory
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 2 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1