AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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.

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 400 MHz
45x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
7.2x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 666 MHz
102x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3876 vs 38
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2013 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3876 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark	807 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3876

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

807

300

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8970M	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark	3876	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	807	300
Geekbench - OpenCL	18661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	57.241
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1223.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	268.643
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2595
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8970M	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Neptune	NV44 A2
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	14 May 2013	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	546	547
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Compute units	20
Core clock speed	850 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1280
Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore