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).

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

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		1877
PassMark - G2D Mark		364
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	1353
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