AMD Radeon HD 6520G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6520G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3134 vs 2505
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3134 vs 2505
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 82 vs 72
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2011 vs 2 February 2010
Pipelines 320 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3134 vs 2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3134 vs 2505
PassMark - G2D Mark 82 vs 72

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

  • Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 389 vs 300
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 389 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3134
2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3134
2505
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
82
72
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
300
389
Name AMD Radeon HD 6520G NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 749
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1577
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3134 2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3134 2505
PassMark - G2D Mark 82 72
PassMark - G3D Mark 300 389

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6520G NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla
Code name Llano G92
Launch date 15 June 2011 2 February 2010
Place in performance rating 1418 1419
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 320 96
Transistor count 1000 Million 754 million
Floating-point performance 257.28 gflops
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 175 mm
Supplementary power connectors None