AMD Radeon HD 7590M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameC51Thames XT
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 October 2004 (19 years old)8 January 2012 (12 years old)
Current price$64 $338

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data480
Core clock speed425 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data716 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data18 Watt
Texture fill rate0.4314.40
Floating-point performanceno data576.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 6100 and Radeon HD 7590M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIPCIe 2.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

Memory

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared3200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 11 October 2004 8 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount System Shared 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6100 and Radeon HD 7590M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6100 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 7590M is a notebook one.


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