AMD Radeon HD 6520G vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6520G and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 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.

AMD Radeon HD 6520G

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
20x more pipelines: 320 vs 2x 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 300 vs 67

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2011 vs 11 November 2008
Pipelines	320 vs 2x 8
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	300 vs 67

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 82

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	89 vs 82

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

300

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6520G	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3134
PassMark - G2D Mark	82	89
PassMark - G3D Mark	300	67

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6520G	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Tesla
Code name	Llano	G98
Launch date	15 June 2011	11 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1420	1423
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$163.14
Price now		$168
Value for money (0-100)		0.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	480 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	2x 8
Transistor count	1000 Million	210 million
Floating-point performance		2x 19.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 3.84 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None