AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M 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.

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
Around 92% better floating-point performance: 153.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 193 vs 131

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 1 June 2007
Pipelines	160 vs 32
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	193 vs 131

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 480 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 109 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	109 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6430M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

109

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	109

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Seymour	G84
Launch date	4 January 2011	1 June 2007
Place in performance rating	1305	1308
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$149.90
Price now		$149.90
Value for money (0-100)		1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	160	32
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	289 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-HE
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0