NVIDIA GeForce 610M vs AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 610M and AMD Radeon HD 6480G 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 610M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 444 MHz
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 290 vs 257
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 81
  • 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1373 vs 673
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 664 vs 592
  • Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1602 vs 1082
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2848 vs 1696
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 664 vs 592
  • Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1602 vs 1082
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2848 vs 1696
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 December 2011 vs 15 June 2011
Core clock speed 672 MHz vs 444 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 290 vs 257
PassMark - G2D Mark 111 vs 81
Geekbench - OpenCL 1373 vs 673
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 664 vs 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1602 vs 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2848 vs 1696
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 664 vs 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1602 vs 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2848 vs 1696

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

  • 5x more pipelines: 240 vs 48
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
Pipelines 240 vs 48
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 610M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6480G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
290
257
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
111
81
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1373
673
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
664
592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1602
1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2848
1696
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
664
592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1602
1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2848
1696
Name NVIDIA GeForce 610M AMD Radeon HD 6480G
PassMark - G3D Mark 290 257
PassMark - G2D Mark 111 81
Geekbench - OpenCL 1373 673
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) 664 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1602 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2848 1696
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 664 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1602 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2848 1696

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 610M AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF108 Llano
Launch date 1 December 2011 15 June 2011
Place in performance rating 1527 1528
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 900 MHz
Core clock speed 672 MHz 444 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 48 240
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1000 Million
Video decoders H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 API 11
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bus width 64bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0 1

Technologies

CUDA
Optimus