AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP

11.1x lower typical power consumption: 9 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt vs 100 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

Around 55% higher core clock speed: 620 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	620 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Loveland	N12E-GTX2
Launch date	7 January 2011	6 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	620 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	450 million
Pipelines		768
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0