AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher texture fill rate: 7.09 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 320 vs 16
  • 6.3x better floating-point performance: 283.52 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 337 vs 143
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 41
  • Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1614 vs 1052
  • Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1614 vs 1052
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 June 2011 vs 27 November 2009
Texture fill rate 7.09 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines 320 vs 16
Floating-point performance 283.52 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 337 vs 143
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 vs 41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1614 vs 1052
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1614 vs 1052

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 589 MHz vs 443 MHz
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2724 vs 876
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 589 MHz vs 443 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 31 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2724 vs 876

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
337
143
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
41
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
876
2724
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1614
1052
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1614
1052
Name AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 337 143
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 41
Geekbench - OpenCL 876 2724
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 733
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 733
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1104
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1614 1052
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1614 1052

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name BeaverCreek GT218
Launch date 20 June 2011 27 November 2009
Place in performance rating 1470 1654
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 443 MHz 589 MHz
Floating-point performance 283.52 gflops 44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 320 16
Texture fill rate 7.09 GTexel / s 4.71 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 1,450 million 260 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared DDR2
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 666 MHz