NVIDIA Quadro K610M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K610M 1 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

111 points

Identical

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1833 points

6236 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1997 points

5952 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

20.8 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

38% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.92 Gigapixels/s

5.6 Gigapixels/s

42% much higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.68 Gigatexels/s

16.8 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

497th of 586

495th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro K610M vs Radeon HD 8730M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon HD 8730M beats the Quadro K610M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Quadro K610M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon HD 8730M has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon HD 8730M over the Quadro K610M.