AMD Radeon HD 6370M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6370M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/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).

AMD Radeon HD 6370M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6370M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 532 MHz
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 276 vs 123
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 401 vs 122

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2010 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 532 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	276 vs 123
PassMark - G2D Mark	401 vs 122

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6370M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

276

123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

401

122

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	276	123
PassMark - G2D Mark	401	122
Geekbench - OpenCL	2744
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.171
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1885
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1885

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Robson	NV48
Launch date	26 November 2010	30 September 2005
Place in performance rating	1229	1232
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	532 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0