AMD Radeon HD 6670A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6670A and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6670A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6670A

2.2x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 6.5 billion / sec
10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
3.7x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
4.4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 900 MHz (DDR3)

Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s vs 6.5 billion / sec
Pipelines	480 vs 48
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 900 MHz (DDR3)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

2.7x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 45 Watt

Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6670A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6670A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
PassMark - G3D Mark		319
PassMark - G2D Mark		135
Geekbench - OpenCL		1275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		76.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		4.574
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1455

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6670A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Turks	GF119
Launch date	19 April 2011	13 April 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1596
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$59
Price now		$59.99
Value for money (0-100)		7.58
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	1620 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	48
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	6.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	292 million
CUDA cores		48
Maximum GPU temperature		102 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		2.7" (6.9 cm)
Length		5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
CUDA