AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce 610M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6930 and NVIDIA GeForce 610M 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce 610M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6930

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 672 MHz
26.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 48
14.9x better floating-point performance: 1,920.0 gflops vs 129.02 gflops
3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 672 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops vs 129.02 gflops
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 610M

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

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 186 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6930
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 610M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6930	NVIDIA GeForce 610M
PassMark - G3D Mark		290
PassMark - G2D Mark		111
Geekbench - OpenCL		1373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.747
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		104.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		9.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1602
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2848
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1602
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2848

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6930	NVIDIA GeForce 610M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Fermi
Code name	Cayman	GF108
Launch date	1 December 2011	1 December 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$180
Place in performance rating	not rated	1527
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	672 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,920.0 gflops	129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	48
Texture fill rate	60.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	186 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	585 million
Boost clock speed		900 MHz
CUDA cores		48
Video decoders		H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	220 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
Optimus