AMD Radeon HD 6370M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6370M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 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 Quadro FX 5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6370M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
15.5x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 171 Watt
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 401 vs 109

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2010 vs 5 March 2007
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 171 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	401 vs 109

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

3.2x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 128 vs 80
2.9x better floating-point performance: 345.6 gflops vs 120 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 525 vs 276
Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3328 vs 1885
Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3328 vs 1885

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 80
Floating-point performance	345.6 gflops vs 120 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	525 vs 276
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3328 vs 1885
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3328 vs 1885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6370M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

276

525

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

401

109

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1885

3328

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1885

3328

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	276	525
PassMark - G2D Mark	401	109
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	3328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1885	3328

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6370M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Robson	G80
Launch date	26 November 2010	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1232	1235
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,999
Price now		$179.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.92
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops	345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	80	128
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt	171 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	681 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0