AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 450 MHz
9.1x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
120x more pipelines: 960 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
5.1x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 700 MHz
17.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2270 vs 128
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 220

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 1 March 2006
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2270 vs 128
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 220

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2270

128

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

220

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6970M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
PassMark - G3D Mark	2270	128
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	220
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 Go 7600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Blackcomb	G73
Launch date	4 January 2011	1 March 2006
Place in performance rating	782	784
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	960	8
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s	3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	177 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	350 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128 / 64
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0