AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 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 6310 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP

13.6x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 244 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 244 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

5.6x more core clock speed: 1544 MHz vs 276 MHz

Core clock speed	1544 MHz vs 276 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
PassMark - G3D Mark		4609
PassMark - G2D Mark		474
Geekbench - OpenCL		15038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		40.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		872.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		32.378
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		132.363
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		809

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6310 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Loveland	GF110
Launch date	9 November 2010	9 November 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	657
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$289.88
Value for money (0-100)		19.21
Technical info
Core clock speed	276 MHz	1544 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt	244 Watt
Transistor count	450 million	3,000 million
CUDA cores		512
Floating-point performance		1,581.1 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Pipelines		512
Texture fill rate		49.4 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options		3-way
Supplementary power connectors		One 6-pin and One 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		192.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
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