AMD Radeon HD 6370M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6370M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 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 - 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6370M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • 4.5x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 401 vs 253
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 November 2010 vs 3 September 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 11 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 401 vs 253

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 16.1 billion / sec vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 192 vs 80
  • 4.3x better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 120 gflops
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1207 vs 276
  • Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4119 vs 2744
  • 6.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.105 vs 0.171
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1699 vs 281
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2837 vs 1297
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 1885
  • 6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1699 vs 281
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2837 vs 1297
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 1885
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.1 billion / sec vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 80
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops vs 120 gflops
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1207 vs 276
Geekbench - OpenCL 4119 vs 2744
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.105 vs 0.171
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1699 vs 281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2837 vs 1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 vs 1885
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1699 vs 281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2837 vs 1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 vs 1885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6370M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
276
1207
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
401
253
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2744
4119
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
0.171
1.105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
281
1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1297
2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1885
3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
281
1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1297
2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1885
3349
Name AMD Radeon HD 6370M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
PassMark - G3D Mark 276 1207
PassMark - G2D Mark 401 253
Geekbench - OpenCL 2744 4119
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.171 1.105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 281 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1297 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1885 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 281 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1297 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1885 3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 11.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 391.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 32.965
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6370M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Robson GF106
Launch date 26 November 2010 3 September 2010
Place in performance rating 1228 1229
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz 1350 MHz
Floating-point performance 120 gflops 518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 80 192
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s 16.1 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 11 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 1,170 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 API with Feature Level 12.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 60.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI