AMD Radeon HD 6520G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6520G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 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 40 nm
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1577 vs 1210
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1577 vs 1210
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3134 vs 1524
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3134 vs 1524
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2011 vs 15 January 2011
Pipelines 320 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1577 vs 1210
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1577 vs 1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3134 vs 1524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3134 vs 1524

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M

  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1634 vs 748
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 929 vs 644
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 929 vs 644
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 187 vs 81
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 539 vs 300
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1300 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 1634 vs 748
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 929 vs 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 929 vs 644
PassMark - G2D Mark 187 vs 81
PassMark - G3D Mark 539 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
748
1634
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
644
929
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
644
929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1577
1210
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1577
1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3134
1524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3134
1524
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
187
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
300
539
Name AMD Radeon HD 6520G NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M
Geekbench - OpenCL 748 1634
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 644 929
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 644 929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1577 1210
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1577 1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3134 1524
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3134 1524
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 187
PassMark - G3D Mark 300 539
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.25

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6520G NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Llano GF106
Launch date 15 June 2011 15 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1415 1417
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 320 96
Transistor count 1000 Million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 249.6 gflops
Texture fill rate 7.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 12 API with Feature Level 12.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus