GeForce GT 520M vs Radeon HD 7670M

GeForce GT 520M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 7670M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 17 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7670M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520M
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    256%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7670M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 156% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7670M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7670M

The Radeon HD 7670M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520MRadeon HD 7670M
GPU NameGF119 (N12P-GV-B-A1)vsThames (Thames XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs716 million
Shaders48vs480
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock740 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520MRadeon HD 7670M
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520MRadeon HD 7670M
TDP12 wattsvs20 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs17 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520M
    1.48 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520M
    5.92 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520M
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520M
    142.08 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    576.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520M
    550
  • Radeon HD 7670M
    1410

Points (higher is better)

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