AMD Radeon HD 6670 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6670 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6670

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 480 vs 128
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 66 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 724 vs 576
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 244 vs 153
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 1876
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 1876
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 April 2011 vs 3 March 2009
Pipelines 480 vs 128
Floating-point performance 768.0 gflops vs 374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 66 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 724 vs 576
PassMark - G2D Mark 244 vs 153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348 vs 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348 vs 1876

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

  • Around 98% higher texture fill rate: 38 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 38 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6670
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
724
576
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
244
153
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3348
1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3348
1876
Name AMD Radeon HD 6670 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
PassMark - G3D Mark 724 576
PassMark - G2D Mark 244 153
Geekbench - OpenCL 1900
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 235.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 38.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348 1876
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6670 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Turks G92
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 19 April 2011 3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Place in performance rating 1261 1263
Price now $102.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 13.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 768.0 gflops 374.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 128
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s 38 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 66 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 754 million
Core clock speed 1463 MHz
CUDA cores 128
Gigaflops 562

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-IV
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 61 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD
SLI