AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jan 2008
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 6 PCI
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
3.200GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
560.0 MPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.120 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
375W
TDP
Unknown
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
NV44
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
0.075 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
110 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
