AMD Radeon HD 6630M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6630M and NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 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 6630M

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6630M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
15x more pipelines: 480 vs 32
4.8x better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 99.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 73% lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 45 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 685 vs 209
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 390 vs 120
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2368 vs 1901
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2368 vs 1901

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 29 July 2008
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 32
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 99.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt vs 45 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	685 vs 209
PassMark - G2D Mark	390 vs 120
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2368 vs 1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2368 vs 1901

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

685

209

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

390

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

1901

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

1901

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	685	209
PassMark - G2D Mark	390	120
Geekbench - OpenCL	984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	142.549
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	42.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2368	1901
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2368	1901

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Whistler	G96
Launch date	4 January 2011	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1370	1374
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	99.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	32
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Gigaflops		148
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0