AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

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

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +543%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2011

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF119

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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