AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M 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 - 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 6490

  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 3.7x more texture fill rate: 32.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 5% higher pipelines: 336 vs 320
  • 2.2x better floating-point performance: 772.8 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 575 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 336 vs 320
Floating-point performance 772.8 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6490
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

Name AMD Radeon HD 6490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1864
PassMark - G2D Mark 358
Geekbench - OpenCL 5696
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 14.911
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 533.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.681
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 31.229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 66.187
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 475
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 657
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 475
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 657

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6490 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi 2.0
Code name Redwood GF114
Launch date 4 July 2011 28 June 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 1349
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 352.0 gflops 772.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 320 336
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s 32.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 627 million 1,950 million
CUDA cores 336

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 165 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s 72.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI

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