NVIDIA GeForce 615 vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 615 and AMD Radeon HD 6430M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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 615

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 615

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 480 MHz
Around 38% higher texture fill rate: 5.28 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 514 vs 193
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2012 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	660 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.28 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	514 vs 193
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 106

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
Around 21% better floating-point performance: 153.6 gflops vs 126.7 gflops

Pipelines	160 vs 48
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops vs 126.7 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 615
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6430M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

514

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

106

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 615	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
PassMark - G3D Mark	514	193
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	106
Geekbench - OpenCL	1322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1286
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1286
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1708

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 615	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Seymour
Launch date	15 May 2012	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1313	1314
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	660 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	126.7 gflops	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	160
Texture fill rate	5.28 GTexel / s	3.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory		0