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Intel Core i7-2640M | AMD Radeon HD 6630M | 13.00" | 1.6 kg
The AMD Radeon HD 6630M (sometimes also called ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6630 or similar) is a middle class graphics card for laptops. It supports DirectX11 and is the successor of the low clocked HD 5650 chips (low power). Compared to the HD 5650 it offers 80 more shader, Eyefinity+ and the new UVD3 video decoder.
The 480 Stream processors should be still based on the "old" 5D architecture similar to the 5000 series. Therefore, the number of shaders is not comparable to the 1D cores of current Nvidia GPUs. The Tessellation performance should be improved (like the desktop 6800 series) with the new cards. The Stream processors can be used with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL. With the later two the cores can also be used for general computations like transcoding videos.
The 3D performance should is similar to the older Radeon HD 5650 due to the larger amount of shaders. Therefore, current and demanding games should run fluently in 1366x768 and medium to high details. Less demanding games like Sims 3 or Fifa 11 should run in high details and resolutions. Detailed gaming benchmarks can be found below.
The new UVD3 video decoder supports the decoding of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, Flash and now also Multi-View Codec (MVC) and MPEG-4 part 2 (DivX, xVid) HD videos on the graphics card.
Furthermore, the HD 6600M series integrates a HD audio controller to transmit HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS Master Audio) over HDMI and DisplayPort (e.g. for Blu-Ray videos).
The AMD HD3D Technology offers support for Blu-Ray 3D and 3D displays (integrated and external). However, the solution is not as mature as Nvidias 3D Vision.
Thanks to Eyefinity the graphics chip is able to theoretically drive up to 5 monitors simultaneously. However, this only works if the laptop features enough DisplayPort outputs.
The power consumption of the chip should be similar to the low clocked Mobility Radeon HD 5650 chips and therefore suited for 14" laptops and up.
Radeon HD 6600M/6700M Series
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Codename | Whistler-LP | |||||||||||||||
Architecture | Terascale 2 | |||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 480 - unified | |||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 485 MHz | |||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 800 MHz | |||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | |||||||||||||||
Memory Type | DDR3 | |||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||||||||
technology | 40 nm | |||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 04.01.2011 | |||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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Risen 2: Dark Waters | 33 | 21 | 16 | 8 | ||
Mass Effect 3 | 43 | 38 | 18 | |||
Anno 2070 | 74 | 28 | 18 | 10 | ||
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 50 | 32 | 20 | 10 | ||
CoD: Modern Warfare 3 | 155 | 64 | 38 | 20 | ||
Battlefield 3 | 34 | 22 | 20 | |||
Fifa 12 | 66 | 35 | ||||
F1 2011 | 59 | 37 | 20 | 13 | ||
Deus Ex Human Revolution | 80 | 33 | 14 | |||
Dirt 3 | 98 | 67 | 38 | 13 | ||
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings | 23 | |||||
Crysis 2 | 51 | 33 | 25 | 9 | ||
Total War: Shogun 2 | 116 | 25 | 9.1 | |||
Call of Duty: Black Ops | 69 | 51 | 40 | 22 | ||
Fifa 11 | 234 | 146 | 91 | 57 | ||
Mafia 2 | 52 | 39 | 32 | 20.4 | ||
StarCraft 2 | 137 | 47 | 34 | 18 | ||
Just Cause 2 | 9.15 | |||||
Metro 2033 | 48 | 26 | ||||
Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising | 71 | 50 | ||||
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 56 | 42 | 30 | 14 | ||
CoD Modern Warfare 2 | 84.6 | 40.3 | 32.5 | |||
Risen | 57 | 33 | 23 | 17.6 | ||
Resident Evil 5 | 94 | 43 | 24.4 | |||
Need for Speed Shift | 35 | 28 | ||||
Colin McRae: DIRT 2 | 70 | 55 | 31 | |||
Anno 1404 | 136.7 | 30.6 | ||||
Sims 3 | 42 | |||||
Far Cry 2 | 116 | 49 | 16.7 | |||
Trackmania Nations Forever | 173 | 50.3 | 21.4 | |||
Supreme Commander - FA Bench | 51.9 | 43.3 | 34.6 | 16.8 | ||
Crysis - GPU Benchmark | 41.3 | 30 | 8 | |||
Crysis - CPU Benchmark | 38.9 | 25 | 7 | |||
World in Conflict - Benchmark | 112 | 50 | 34 | 12 | ||
World of Warcraft | 160.7 | 132 | 43.4 | |||
< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 11 11 6 | 5 16 2 2 | 9 18 2 | 23 3 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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