AMD Radeon HD 6450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6450 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
• 3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
• Around 55% better floating-point performance: 200.0 gflops vs 129.02 gflops
• Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 77
• Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 97.327 vs 83.376
• 3.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 19.314 vs 4.992

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

• Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 5.9 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
• 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 30 Watt
• Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 286 vs 198
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1313 vs 633
• Around 72% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 3.237 vs 1.878
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.26 vs 0.231
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 5.92 vs 4.982
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 536 vs 497
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1731 vs 810
• Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2380 vs 1627
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 536 vs 497
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1731 vs 810
• Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2380 vs 1627

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	198 286
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	119 77
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	633 1313
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.878 3.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	97.327 83.376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.231 0.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.982 5.92
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	19.314 4.992
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	497 536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	810 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1627 2380
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	497 536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	810 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1627 2380

Compare specifications (specs)