NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs AMD Radeon HD 6370M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon HD 6370M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 750 MHz
• 3x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
• 4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
• 7.2x better floating-point performance: 863.2 gflops vs 120 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• 4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1096 vs 276
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5771 vs 2744
• 7.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.237 vs 0.171
• 7.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2085 vs 281
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2736 vs 1297
• Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3191 vs 1885
• 7.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2085 vs 281
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2736 vs 1297
• Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3191 vs 1885

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6370M

• 3x lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 33 Watt
• 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 401 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6370M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1096 276
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	151 401
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5771 2744
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.237 0.171
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 1885
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 1297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 1885

Compare specifications (specs)