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).

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA Quadro 2000

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		946
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