NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 and AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
10.3x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	2 April 2012 vs 8 July 2011
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 810 MHz
38.5x more texture fill rate: 2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 6.5 billion / sec
46.7x more pipelines: 2x 1120 vs 48
25.9x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,016.0 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 1024 MB
4200x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
7.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.807 vs 0.233

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 810 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 6.5 billion / sec
Pipelines	2x 1120 vs 48
Floating-point performance	2x 2,016.0 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 1024 MB
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807 vs 0.233

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

0.233

1.807

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	317
PassMark - G2D Mark	129
Geekbench - OpenCL	1281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.471
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	77.99
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.233	1.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	4.053
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	835
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1155
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	835
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1155
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	87

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF119	Barts
Launch date	2 April 2012	8 July 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$39.99	$520
Place in performance rating	1621	1622
Price now	$39.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	10.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	900 MHz
CUDA cores	48
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops	2x 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	102 °C
Pipelines	48	2x 1120
Texture fill rate	6.5 billion / sec	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Height	2.7" (6.9 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)	304 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.2	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1024 MB	2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1.8 GB/s	4200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA