AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
• 15x more pipelines: 960 vs 64
• 6.8x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 192 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2270 vs 679
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 308
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 3221
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 3221

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

• 2.2x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 680 MHz
• Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2270 679
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	656 308
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3221

Compare specifications (specs)