AMD Radeon HD 6570M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6570M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 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 6570M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6570M

Around 39% higher pipelines: 400 vs 288
5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 150 Watt
2.1x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Pipelines	400 vs 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

2x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 650 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 31.2 billion / sec vs 13 GTexel / s
Around 44% better floating-point performance: 748.8 gflops vs 520.0 gflops

Core clock speed	1300 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	31.2 billion / sec vs 13 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	748.8 gflops vs 520.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6570M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark		1986
PassMark - G2D Mark		359
Geekbench - OpenCL		6155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		635.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		48.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3108

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6570M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Capilano	GF104
Launch date	26 November 2010	15 November 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	942
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$160
Price now		$159.99
Value for money (0-100)		15.95
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1300 MHz
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops	748.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	288
Texture fill rate	13 GTexel / s	31.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	1,950 million
CUDA cores		288
Maximum GPU temperature		104 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Number of display connectors		2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s	108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround