AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6950M and NVIDIA Quadro 2000 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 Radeon HD 6950M

  • Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
  • 5x more pipelines: 960 vs 192
  • 2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,113.6 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
  • Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 62 Watt
  • Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 2600 MHz
Texture fill rate 27.84 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 192
Floating-point performance 1,113.6 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 62 Watt
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 2600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 2000

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 580 MHz
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 580 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Name AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA Quadro 2000
PassMark - G3D Mark 947
PassMark - G2D Mark 301
Geekbench - OpenCL 3902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 258.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.02
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2668
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2668

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Blackcomb GF106
Launch date 4 January 2011 24 December 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1290
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $87.99
Value for money (0-100) 17.65

Technical info

Core clock speed 580 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,113.6 gflops 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 960 192
Texture fill rate 27.84 GTexel / s 20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 62 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million 1,170 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Length 178 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB / s 41.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz 2600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

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