AMD Radeon HD 6630M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6630M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 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, 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 Quadro FX 3800

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6630M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 192
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
4.2x lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 108 Watt
8.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 390 vs 47

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 30 March 2009
Pipelines	480 vs 192
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt vs 108 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	390 vs 47

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 38.4 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 823 vs 685
13.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 13337 vs 984
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3258 vs 2368
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3258 vs 2368

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	38.4 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	823 vs 685
Geekbench - OpenCL	13337 vs 984
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3258 vs 2368
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3258 vs 2368

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

685

823

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

390

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

984

13337

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

3258

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

3258

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
PassMark - G3D Mark	685	823
PassMark - G2D Mark	390	47
Geekbench - OpenCL	984	13337
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	3258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2368	3258

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Whistler	GT200B
Launch date	4 January 2011	30 March 2009
Place in performance rating	1372	1374
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$799
Price now		$109.99
Value for money (0-100)		9.89
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	480	192
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	38.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt	108 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0