AMD Radeon HD 6470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6470M and NVIDIA GeForce 320M 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6470M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 226 vs 210
  • Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 105 vs 59
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1881 vs 1735
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1881 vs 1735
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 January 2011 vs 1 April 2010
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 160 vs 32
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 226 vs 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 105 vs 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1881 vs 1735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1881 vs 1735

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M

  • 3.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2474 vs 729
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2474 vs 729

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 320M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
226
210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
105
59
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
729
2474
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
1735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
1735
Name AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce 320M
PassMark - G3D Mark 226 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 105 59
Geekbench - OpenCL 729 2474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.282
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 112.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 5.671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1881 1735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1881 1735

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Seymour MCP89
Launch date 4 January 2011 1 April 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $569.99
Place in performance rating 1579 1582
Price now $569.99
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 0.72

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 224 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 160 32
Texture fill rate 5.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 370 million 486 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0 yes