GeForce GT 520 vs Radeon HD 6570

GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520
Radeon HD 6570
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6570
    275%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6570

Around 175% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6570

The Radeon HD 6570 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6570
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs716 million
Shaders48vs480
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock810 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6570
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 6570
TDP29 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date13 Apr 2011vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520
    570
  • Radeon HD 6570
    1570

Points (higher is better)