NVIDIA Quadro 4000M vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000M 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), 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 4000M

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
6.9x more texture fill rate: 26.6 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 336 vs 160
4.2x better floating-point performance: 638.4 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
6.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1278 vs 193
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 269 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 4 January 2011
Texture fill rate	26.6 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	336 vs 160
Floating-point performance	638.4 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1278 vs 193
PassMark - G2D Mark	269 vs 106

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 475 MHz

Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 475 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6430M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1278

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

269

106

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000M	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1278	193
PassMark - G2D Mark	269	106
Geekbench - OpenCL	5212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	21.42
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	738.724
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	33.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	81.823
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1413
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	865
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1254
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1413
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	865
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1254

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000M	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF104	Seymour
Launch date	22 February 2011	4 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	1306	1307
Price now	$111.99
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	19.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	480 MHz
Floating-point performance	638.4 gflops	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	336	160
Texture fill rate	26.6 GTexel / s	3.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0