ATI Radeon HD 4100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4100 and AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements.

ATI Radeon HD 4100

AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 350 MHz
10x more pipelines: 400 vs 40
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	400 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4100	AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	RV6xx	TeraScale 2
Launch date	1 November 2009	28 October 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		Capilano
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	40	400
Floating-point performance		480.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		30 Watt
Transistor count		627 million
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Shared memory	yes
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-II