NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 6610M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) and AMD Radeon HD 6610M 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 GTX 1070 (Desktop)

AMD Radeon HD 6610M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 450 MHz
18.7x more texture fill rate: 202.0 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 1920 vs 480
15x better floating-point performance: 6,463 gflops vs 432.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
23.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13507 vs 565
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 847 vs 527

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 June 2016 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1920 vs 480
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops vs 432.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13507 vs 565
PassMark - G2D Mark	847 vs 527

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6610M

5.8x lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 150 Watt
200x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6610M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13507

565

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

847

527

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 6610M
PassMark - G3D Mark	13507	565
PassMark - G2D Mark	847	527
Geekbench - OpenCL	47421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6070

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 6610M
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP104	Whistler
Launch date	10 June 2016	4 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$379
Place in performance rating	278	276
Price now	$359.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	45.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops	432.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	1920	480
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	26 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin
Width	2-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality