AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 123.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2832 vs 23
  • Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 428 vs 249
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 December 2010 vs 11 October 2004
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2832 vs 23
PassMark - G2D Mark 428 vs 249

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2832
23
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
428
249
Name AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
PassMark - G3D Mark 2832 23
PassMark - G2D Mark 428 249
Geekbench - OpenCL 35739
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 920.398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 273.175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 Curie
Code name Cayman C61
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 14 December 2010 11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $369
Place in performance rating 695 698
Price now $94.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 48.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 880 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 84.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 550 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million
Core clock speed 425 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz
Memory type DDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire