NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M +826%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 500M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1120

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 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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