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).

NVIDIA GeForce 610M

AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

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	292
PassMark - G2D Mark	111
Geekbench - OpenCL	1372
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	1522	1524
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
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