AMD Radeon HD 6470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6470M and NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6470M

NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6470M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 226 vs 68
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 105 vs 47
3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1881 vs 512
3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1881 vs 512

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	226 vs 68
PassMark - G2D Mark	105 vs 47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1881 vs 512
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1881 vs 512

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

105

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1881

512

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1881

512

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6470M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	226	68
PassMark - G2D Mark	105	47
Geekbench - OpenCL	729
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	512
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1881	512

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6470M	NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Seymour	MCP77MH MCP79MH
Launch date	4 January 2011	3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$569.99
Place in performance rating	1579	1667
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	65 nm
Pipelines	160	8
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10
OpenGL	4.4
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