AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6230 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 6230

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6230

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 38 Watt
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 254 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 July 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 38 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	254 vs 58

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

2.2x more core clock speed: 1436 MHz vs 650 MHz
3.4x more texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 96 vs 80
2.7x better floating-point performance: 275.71 gflops vs 104 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 654 vs 179
2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3329 vs 1293
2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3329 vs 1293

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1436 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 80
Floating-point performance	275.71 gflops vs 104 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	654 vs 179
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3329 vs 1293
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3329 vs 1293

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

179

654

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1293

3329

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1293

3329

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6230	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
PassMark - G3D Mark	179	654
PassMark - G2D Mark	254	58
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1293	3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1293	3329
Geekbench - OpenCL		11217

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6230	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Park	GT215
Launch date	2 July 2011	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1373	1375
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1436 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	275.71 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	96
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	38 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	727 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		413
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI