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).

 

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 1374 1377
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