AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 520

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 400 MHz
3218.8x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
Around 62% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 81 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
4.1x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
6.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 865 vs 139
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 203 vs 153

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 26 July 2004
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 81 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	865 vs 139
PassMark - G2D Mark	203 vs 153

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

865

139

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

203

153

Name	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	865	139
PassMark - G2D Mark	203	153
Geekbench - OpenCL	26304
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1242
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Oland	NV40 A1
Design	Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	1st Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	26 July 2004
Place in performance rating	1109	1106
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Pixel fill rate	4.10 GP/s
Render output units	4
Stream Processors	320
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s	6.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units	20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	81 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		197 mm
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)