GeForce Go 6200 vs Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking289not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.85no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNeptune CFNV44 A2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2014 (10 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25607
Core clock speed850 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors2x 2800 Million75 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt16 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.200
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2x 4 GB32 MB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data4.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 16 Watt

R9 M290X Crossfire has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

Go 6200, on the other hand, has 1150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and GeForce Go 6200. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire
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NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200
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