AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 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, 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 6990

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 12% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 738 MHz
• 23.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 11.81 GTexel / s
• 96x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 32
• 43.4x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 117.5 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 512 MB
• 5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1008 MHz
• 18.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 160
• 10.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 532 vs 52
• Around 38% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 53.903 vs 38.948
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3713 vs 3689
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 1731
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3713 vs 3689
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 1731

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

• 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 375 Watt
• 10.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 179.899 vs 17.264
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1813.265 vs 840.452
• 7.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 13.817 vs 1.76
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 757.451 vs 265.302

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6990
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3014 160
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	532 52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	17.264 179.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	840.452 1813.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.76 13.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	53.903 38.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	265.302 757.451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3689
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 1731

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