NVIDIA GeForce 610M vs AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 610M and AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 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
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1602 vs 802
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2848 vs 1597
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1602 vs 802
  • Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2848 vs 1597
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 December 2011 vs 14 June 2011
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1602 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2848 vs 1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1602 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2848 vs 1597

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

  • 10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
Pipelines 480 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 610M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1602
802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2848
1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1602
802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2848
1597
Name NVIDIA GeForce 610M AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
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 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2848 1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1602 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2848 1597

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 610M AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF108
Launch date 1 December 2011 14 June 2011
Place in performance rating 1527 1529
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 900 MHz
Core clock speed 672 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 480
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt
Transistor count 585 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
Laptop size medium sized

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 0

Technologies

CUDA
Optimus