GeForce GT 520 vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

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

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 520

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6450
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs370 million
Shaders48vs160
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock810 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6450
TDP29 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date13 Apr 2011vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520
    570
  • Radeon HD 6450
    520

Points (higher is better)