GeForce GT 520 OEM vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce GT 520 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2012
GeForce GT 520 OEM
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    109%
  • Radeon HD 6450
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 9% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 520 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 520 OEM

The GeForce GT 520 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520 OEMRadeon HD 6450
GPU NameGF119 (GF119 B1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs370 million
Shaders96vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock589 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520 OEMRadeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520 OEMRadeon HD 6450
TDP29 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date20 Aug 2012vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    2.36 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    9.42 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    269.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520 OEM
    570
  • Radeon HD 6450
    520

Points (higher is better)