AMD Radeon HD 6630M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6630M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 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 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
  • Around 74% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 275.71 gflops
  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 38 Watt
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 685 vs 654
  • 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 390 vs 58
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 January 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Pipelines 480 vs 96
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops vs 275.71 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 26 Watt vs 38 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 685 vs 654
PassMark - G2D Mark 390 vs 58

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

  • 2.9x more core clock speed: 1436 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 11.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11217 vs 984
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3329 vs 2368
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3329 vs 2368
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1436 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 11217 vs 984
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3329 vs 2368
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3329 vs 2368

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
685
654
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
390
58
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
984
11217
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2368
3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2368
3329
Name AMD Radeon HD 6630M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
PassMark - G3D Mark 685 654
PassMark - G2D Mark 390 58
Geekbench - OpenCL 984 11217
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 3329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2368 3329

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6630M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Whistler GT215
Launch date 4 January 2011 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1374 1375
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 1436 MHz
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops 275.71 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 480 96
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 26 Watt 38 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 727 million
CUDA cores 96
Gigaflops 413

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI