GeForce GT 530 OEM vs Radeon HD 6610M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking989not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.88no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameWhistlerGF108
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)14 May 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48096
Core clock speed450 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors716 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8011.20
Floating-point processing power0.432 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs2416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 14 May 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 50 Watt

HD 6610M has 92.3% lower power consumption.

GT 530 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6610M and GeForce GT 530 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6610M is a notebook card while GeForce GT 530 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6610M
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