NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 26W)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M +177%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 500M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

400

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Lexington

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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