AMD Radeon R9 M385X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M385X and NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M385X

NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M385X

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 400 MHz
19.3x more texture fill rate: 61.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 800 MHz
22.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1994 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 14 November 2004
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	61.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1994 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 288 vs 267

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	288 vs 267

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M385X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

267

288

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1994

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M385X	NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4079
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4079
PassMark - G2D Mark	267	288
PassMark - G3D Mark	1994	89
Geekbench - OpenCL	49760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M385X	NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Curie
Code name	Strato	NV43 A2
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	14 November 2004
Place in performance rating	575	572
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	896
Texture fill rate	61.6 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,080 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DirectCompute 5.0
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore