AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce 610

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6930 and NVIDIA GeForce 610 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce 610

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6930

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 738 MHz
10.2x more texture fill rate: 60.0 GTexel / s vs 5.9 GTexel / s
26.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 48
13.5x better floating-point performance: 1,920.0 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 738 MHz
Texture fill rate	60.0 GTexel / s vs 5.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 610

15.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 186 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 186 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6930	NVIDIA GeForce 610
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Cayman	GF119
Launch date	1 December 2011	1 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$180
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	738 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops	141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	48
Texture fill rate	60.0 GTexel / s	5.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	186 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	220 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3