AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950 and NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
16.8x more texture fill rate: 70.4 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1100 MHz
27.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2605 vs 95
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 440 vs 243

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 December 2010 vs 14 November 2004
Texture fill rate	70.4 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2605 vs 95
PassMark - G2D Mark	440 vs 243

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2605

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

440

243

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6950	NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark	2605	95
PassMark - G2D Mark	440	243
Geekbench - OpenCL	6105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	16.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	899.056
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.698
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	251.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	11657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2523
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	11657
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6950	NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Curie
Code name	Cayman	NV43 A2
Design	AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date	14 December 2010	14 November 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	713	711
Price now	$89.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	45.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1408
Texture fill rate	70.4 GTexel / s	4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	500 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	146 million
Core clock speed		525 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Memory bandwidth		17.6 GB / s
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire