NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M and AMD Radeon HD 6230 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 GT 630M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 96 vs 80
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 253.4 gflops vs 104 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 532 vs 179
  • 3.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 967 vs 252
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2766 vs 744
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 1293
  • 3.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 967 vs 252
  • 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2766 vs 744
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 1293
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 2 July 2011
Pipelines 96 vs 80
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops vs 104 gflops
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 532 vs 179
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967 vs 252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766 vs 744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 1293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967 vs 252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766 vs 744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 1293

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6230

  • Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 33 Watt
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 254 vs 152
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 254 vs 152

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6230

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
532
179
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
152
254
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
967
252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2766
744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
1293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
967
252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2766
744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
1293
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M AMD Radeon HD 6230
PassMark - G3D Mark 532 179
PassMark - G2D Mark 152 254
Geekbench - OpenCL 2387
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.903
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967 252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766 744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 1293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967 252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766 744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 1293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M AMD Radeon HD 6230

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF108 Park
Launch date 22 March 2012 2 July 2011
Place in performance rating 1390 1391
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops 104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 80
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 19 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 292 million
Core clock speed 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
DirectX 11.2 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus