AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
90.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2270 vs 25
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 234

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2270 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

234

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6970M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	2270	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	234
Geekbench - OpenCL	3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	617.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	24.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	117.801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6970M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Blackcomb	C61
Launch date	4 January 2011	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	780	783
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	960
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0